Author: Joseph Brookes

Deloitte’s slice of sovereignty scheme clouded in mystery

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The agency administering Australia’s data sovereignty scheme won’t say when it became aware of a foreign company’s plan to acquire Canberra-based cloud provider Sliced Tech or whether the acquisition...

Privacy breach: 7-Eleven secretly scanned customer faces

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7-Eleven violated its customers’ privacy by secretly collecting their facial images at 700 stores over the last year for demographic profiling and data verification, the regulator has determined after...

New regime: Mandatory reporting of ransomware incidents

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The federal government will introduce tougher penalties for ransomware criminals and a mandatory incident reporting scheme for large businesses that suffer an attack under a new ransomware action plan...

Gilmour: We can take Australian made rover to moon

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The Australian-made rover expected to land on the moon later this decade should get there on an Australian-made rocket, according to a local space company which says it could...