### Issue 2161 - Tuesday 27th August, 2024

## In Today's Issue

- More info on why France arrested Pavel Durov
- ACMA cooking up new rules for how telcos update customers about outages
- Apple event 9th Sep, ASD has a new boss, Windows "depreciating" the Control Panel
- Right to disconnect from work now law in Australia
- Cheap Civ 6 for Switch, Telstra pre-paid, TCN gift cards, PSVR2, refurb Dell laptop

## The News

### More info on why France arrested Pavel Durov

We got a bit more detail on why France arrested Mr. Telegram, Pavel Durov, thanks to a press release from French prosecutors. Sounds like the French have a lot of crimes they're looking into that involve the use of Telegram and are probing old mate to see if he will hand over any data about the people using Telegram to launder money, sell drugs, distribute kiddie porn and so on - things that absolutely happen on Telegram - but nothing about a specific crime or anything. TechDirt has a good article hypothesising what the French are up to and The Conversation has some good background info on why Telegram is a target. It's a really messy situation considering Pavel's history in Russia and the use of Telegram in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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### ACMA cooking up new rules for how telcos update customers about outages

The communications minister announced the Telecommunications (Customer Communications for Outages Industry Standards) Direction 2024, which requires ACMA to "make new rules to ensure telcos keep customers informed and updated regarding major outages, for example, through website updates, email updates to customers, social media updates and radio and television news bulletins". We don't know what specifics ACMA will come up with, so keep an eye out for that. This is one of the recommendations of a review of that big Optus outage in November last year (remember that? lol what a time) as people felt like they didn't know what was happening.

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### Apple event 9th Sep, ASD has a new boss, Windows "depreciating" the Control Panel

- Apple's announced a media event for September 9 2024, at 10 AM Cupertino time. You know what that means yeah? New iPhones, again. I feel like we had new iPhones a few months ago?? Anyway, andyb stated a forum thread if you wanna discuss this.
- The Australian Signals Directorate has a new boss - Abigail Bradshaw. She currently leads the Australian Cyber Security Centre and was formerly working in Home Affairs, Immigration and Border Protection. Probably makes no difference to our day to day lives, but now you know who the boss of the ASD is.
- Last week Microsoft updated a support page to say they are "depreciating" Control Panel from a future Windows update in favour of putting everything into Settings. Now they've updated it again to say they're "migrating" those settings instead. Fuck knows when Control Panel will die.

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## Something I Saw On The Internet

### Right to disconnect from work now law in Australia

As of yesterday, Australia has a right to disconnect law. Employees now "have the right to refuse to monitor, read or respond to contact (or attempted contact) outside their working hours, unless doing so is unreasonable". I bring it up in The Sizzle for two reasons - firstly, maybe your boss does this to you and now you have something to fight back against it with! But unwanted and unpaid contact outside working hours is a problem the tech industry enabled. Stuff like smartphones, Slack/Teams, mobile data, etc make it so easy for a dickhead boss to overstep the personal life/work life boundary to squeeze more and more "productivity" out of us. Did the tech industry do it on purpose? No, but it happened and the working class is the collateral damage.

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## Bargains

- Civ 6 Anthology for Nintendo Switch - $27.98 from the eShop
- Telstra 6-month pre-paid SIM with 120GB data, unlimited calls & SMS - $130 from Telstra
- Telstra 365-day pre-paid SIM with 260GB data, unlimited calls & SMS - $266 from Telco Biz Traders
- 10% off TCN gift cards at Woolworths
- PlayStation VR2 - $539.10 from the Gamesmen's eBay store
- Refurb Dell Latitude 5300 laptop (1080p touch screen, i5-8265U, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) - $245 from UN Tech

## Image Of The Day

Collection of posters from Westpac (National Library of Australia)

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