GDPR at Seven: The Enforcement Record Is Worse Than You Think
Seven years of GDPR enforcement has produced billions in fines and almost no behavioral change from the largest offenders.
22 Mar 202615 min read
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Senior Technology Analyst
Sam Chen
Melbourne, Australia
Sam Chen brings an unusual combination of technical depth and journalistic rigour to technology analysis. After spending eight years as a software engineer at two ASX-listed companies, building and maintaining enterprise data platforms and cloud infrastructure, Sam made a deliberate move into technology journalism to write the critical analysis that was missing from the press. Sam's engineering background means that when AI vendors make technical claims, Sam can evaluate them against first principles rather than press releases. Areas of particular focus include AI tool evaluation, security vulnerability analysis, privacy technology and the gap between what enterprise software promises and what it delivers.
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Articles by Sam Chen
Your Password Manager Is Leaking More Than You Think
We ran network capture analysis on seven leading password managers. Three sent data to third-party analytics services without clear disclosure.
22 Mar 202613 min read
The Gap Between Privacy Claims and Privacy Reality at Five Major Platforms
We retained a digital forensics firm to conduct technical analysis of five platforms. What the tools found did not match the words.
28 Mar 202619 min read
Age Verification Laws: The Technical Impossibility No One in Parliament Will Admit
Every age verification scheme proposed or enacted so far has a critical flaw. We explain the technical reality policymakers keep ignoring.
9 Mar 202611 min read
The 'Do Not Track' Fiction: How Platforms Respond to Browser Privacy Signals
We documented exactly how 20 major platforms respond, or fail to respond, to every current browser privacy signal.
2 Mar 202610 min read
The ACCC's New Merger Powers: What Tech Acquisitions Get Caught
We mapped the threshold conditions against the acquisition history of the five largest tech companies operating in Australia.
8 Apr 202612 min read
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