Deleting Democracy: Australia and the surveillance juggernaut

The digital age means we increasingly carry out the minutia of our daily lives in an attention-harvesting, behavioural-modification Panopticon. Super-companies such as Google and Facebook have heralded in a new form of economic model built on the perpetual digital harvesting of citizens' data – surveillance capitalism. And such concepts as privacy, autonomy and democracy are all there to be sold, quantified, or undermined. And just as governments are catching up on regulating the risks of this surveillance technology, it is about to make yet another dramatic leap away from them…