CORRESPONDENCE WITH ABC 1516/25/26 – Documents.pdf

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This FOI release contains correspondence regarding an ABC News inquiry about security risks posed by a Chinese AI firm, MizarVision, publishing sensitive satellite imagery of US and Australian military assets. The ABC requested Defence comment on several matters by 3 April 2026 deadline: whether Australia was aware of US intelligence assessments that open-source satellite imagery endangered deployed personnel; the government's position on publishing sensitive military imagery during conflict; whether Australia was liaising with the US on protective protocols; and whether Defence knew MizarVision was publishing real-time tracking data of HMAS Toowoomba during its February 2026 transit of the Taiwan Strait and subsequent freedom of navigation exercise. The inquiry noted the firm had published targeting analysis of US air defence systems and that Australian personnel were deployed at a Middle Eastern base struck by Iranian projectiles on 18 March 2026, with an unsafe interaction between HMAS Toowoomba and a PLA-Navy helicopter occurring on 4 March 2026 following the vessel's tracked passage through the Taiwan Strait.