Investigations

How these investigations work

Government platform investigations are different from our device and software analyses. They include a legislative breach analysis — mapping every finding to the specific laws the government wrote for itself, with section numbers, case law, and penalty exposure.

Each investigation follows the same evidence layers:

• Terms of use analysis — reading the actual terms, not the marketing summary
• Tracking infrastructure — examining page source code for undisclosed trackers, analytics, and overseas data flows
• Incident history — data breaches, security failures, audit findings, and what happened to real people
• Legislative mapping — every finding mapped to Privacy Act APPs, discrimination acts, administrative law, and sector-specific legislation
• International comparison — how Australia compares to Estonia, the UK, Singapore, and the EU
• The enforcement gap — what regulators could do versus what they actually do

The strongest enforcement pathways are the three discrimination Acts (DDA, RDA, ADA) — they explicitly cover government services, have no "trade or commerce" limitation, and have established precedent for digital accessibility.