Privacy workshop · Cyber Security Action Month
Ever wondered how scammers got your number?
Come and find out. In one afternoon you’ll see what’s going on, get your own privacy report, and leave with a clear plan. You don’t need to be technical.
Saturday 31 October 2026 · 12pm to 4pm · Trafalgar, Victoria · 40 places
The first hour, in one picture
How a number gets out.
Nobody hands a scammer everything at once. Details leave in small, ordinary ways, get pieced together, and come back as a message that sounds like it knows you.
- A data breach. A company you once gave your details to is broken into, and its customer records are copied.
- A fake message. A delivery text, a survey, a call to “confirm your details”. It was fishing, and it got an answer.
- A public profile. A number in an old post, an ad or a listing that anyone can read, and collect.
The first hour walks through all of it, with sources. Your report shows what has already got out.
An illustration, not anyone’s real details.
The afternoon
Four hours, in order.
Scam texts, leaked passwords, loyalty cards, digital ID. It’s hard to tell what’s a real risk and what’s noise, and harder to know what to do about it. This makes sense of it in one afternoon.
What’s going on
How scams work and how scammers get your details, who buys and sells information about you, what a supermarket loyalty card records, and what digital ID means for you. With sources, and without the scare.
The first hour.
Your map
The Privacy Action Network framework on one page: your digital life in nine layers, from the phone in your hand to the money behind it. It turns a pile of worries into a short list, in order, so you can see where the gaps are and which ones matter first.
The second hour. Then a proper break, with tea and coffee.
Your report, and your own checks
If you asked for one, your personal privacy report: what your email address and mobile number already give away. Data breaches, exposed passwords, the accounts linked to them, and whether your number or address is listed publicly, printed and private. Then two checks you run yourself: a free breach check on your own phone, and a short self-check on paper that stays in your workbook.
The third hour. The report is optional: how it works is further down.
Your plan
The fixes broken down so they make sense, in the order that matters, starting with passwords: what a password manager is, how it works, and why it stops one leak opening everything. You leave knowing what to do first, with a workbook that walks you through it.
The fourth hour. You go home with the workbook.
Good to know
The details, plainly.
Who it’s for
Anyone with a phone and an email address. You don’t need to be technical.
When and where
Saturday 31 October 2026, 12pm to 4pm, in Trafalgar, Victoria. The venue comes with your booking email.
What it costs
$39 if you save your place by Friday 16 October, then $59. Tea and coffee included. Have lunch before you come.
What to bring
Your phone, charged, for one quick check in the room. And your reading glasses, if you use them.
What you take home
A printed workbook to keep: your self-check, the fixes step by step, and your plan. And your personal privacy report, if you asked for one.
What it isn’t
We won’t set everything up on your phone on the day. If enough people want that, a hands-on follow-up session will do it, with help beside you. You can put your name down at the workshop.
The personal report
How the report works.
It’s optional. No tick, no search, and you still get everything else on the day.
- To get a report, book by Sunday 25 October. The checks take time.
- It covers one email address and one mobile number: the email you book with, and the mobile you text me from. In the room you’ll learn how to check any others yourself.
- Only details that are yours, and you need to be 18 or over. My booking email gives you a short code. Text it to me from the mobile you’d like checked: that shows the number and the email are both yours, and it’s your go-ahead. No text, no search.
- Searching means sending those two details to the services that do the checks. The same email lists them, so you know where your details go before you text.
- I note what has been exposed, including which breaches held a password. I don’t open or read any leaked records, so I never see the passwords themselves.
- Your results never go on the projector. The only live example on screen is my own.
- Booking for more than one? The report is for the person booking. Anyone else who wants one saves their own place, so the code goes to their own email.
- Once your report is handed to you, I delete my copy, the search results and your number.
Refunds
A full refund if you cancel by Saturday 24 October. After that, you’re welcome to pass your place to someone else. If the date has to move, you choose: a full refund or a place on the new date.
Save your place.
Forty places. Leave your name and email and I’ll reply personally with how to pay: bank transfer, or cash on the day.