Another fascinating fortnight of technology developments has passed, as Tech Talk unpacks social media ID checks, Amazon's union showdown, and defeating disinformation.

Key points:

• As part of a parliamentary inquiry on domestic violence, there was a suggestion of submitting official identity documents like a driver's license or passport to verify our identities
• This is problematic given Facebook's consistent data breaches including the most recently reported data breach affecting about half a million Facebook users
• This also opens up the discussion on the 'right to anonymity' as a foundational right for people online, which is particularly important for at-risk groups like certain minorities
• Anonymity online can be important for dissidents, people who try to hold power to account, and other marginalised groups who are subject to abuse if they are identified
• Amazon continues to act very strongly against workers' attempt to unionise, including the recent bizarre example of astroturfing where Amazon released fake (but very obvious) profiles that sang Amazon's praises
• It is worth watching Amazon's reactions to the increasing trend of workers organising, including the possibility of escalation to preemptively identify possible future union leaders and punish those workers accordingly
• Defamation law is another way politicians are attempting to manage social media, including Peter Dutton declaring he's pursuing individual Twitter users for defamation
• The "influencer" industry needs greater scrutiny, especially since it appears to have outsized impact with a lot of children and young people, who now express "influencers" as being one of their preferred future career paths.