Suelette Dreyfus is a researcher and lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, as well as the Principal Researcher on an international research project on the impact of digital technologies on whistleblowing.
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Suelette Dreyfus has co-invented innovative prototypes in information design for pathology reports with the aim of transforming them from simple lab information outputs, into multi-layered information tools, which would allow doctors to improve communication with patients and families regarding the status of their diseases in progressive and chronic illnesses such as diabetes.
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Suelette Dreyfus has written on the importance of protecting Freedom of Information access, the problems of information asymmetry and "tool asymmetry" between the individual citizen and the state, and the trend of "security clearance creep".
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Suelette Dreyfus is the author of the 1997 book Underground: Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier.
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Suelette Dreyfus donated the e-book to Project Gutenberg's library so it would be available in perpetuity to the public, in various text formats, for free, partly so that the book would be easily accessible by the vision-impaired.
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Suelette Dreyfus was an Associate Producer and interview subject for the documentary In the Realm of the Hackers, inspired by Underground, in 2003.
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Suelette Dreyfus has been a contributor to The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Independent, and The Age, as well as to radio programs including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Late Night Live with Philip Adams.
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Suelette Dreyfus trained and worked as a staff reporter for a daily newspaper in Australia.
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In 2015 and 2016, Suelette Dreyfus has run training for journalists in a major media organisation and in a journalism school on digital and physical methods of protecting sources and data.
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Suelette Dreyfus's essays have appeared in The Conversation, discussing the importance of protecting public access to strong encryption, the need for legal protections for whistleblowers, and the security paradox of legislation enforcing retention of metadata for two years for everyone in Australia.
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