links.mimuki.net

Ah, yes, test the surveillance tech in a town with 7x more Indigenous people than the national average (percentagewise). Of course, where else would you trial something so controversial and creepy. Siiiigh. (I think it's curious I hadn't heard a word about this until now.)

Has that weird "immersive article experience" thing if you view in a featureful web browser. Also a few of the usual mainstream coverage of technical topics, eye-twitch-inducing traits.

Can I go to the bathroom during the LLND?

Using the bathroom before beginning your assessment is recommended. However, you can take bathroom breaks if needed. Request permission from your moderator first, and for Online Monitored Assessments, keep breaks brief and infrequent to avoid triggering a potential breach.

The surveillance aspects are creepy as hell, especially given that the options for on-campus assessments are so limited. Already I'm pretty sure my accessibility tools would get flagged, but I'm offended they think they can tell me when I can piss in my own damn home.

wait, we're posting CCTV to Instagram to try and identify people? Jeeeeeeez.

As predicted, the quiet legal backtracking with Bunnings has set a precident.

The careful framing of "we only had one false positive in the first week" and [since June, across the entire trial] "we had 33 alerts and 18 arrests" is gross and overtly misleading. For all we know it's got an almost 50% false positive rate. Whee.