Author: Joseph Brookes

Age assurance ‘trap’ slowing online safety

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Debate about the workability of age verification technologies is a “trap” helping social media giants slow meaningful regulatory efforts, advocates are warning, as the federal government pours millions of...

Govt’s $3m digital ID push in the Pacific

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Australia will spend almost $3 million on the development of digital identity infrastructure for Pacific Island nations as part of the Albanese government’s effort to counter China’s influence in...

Prime Ministers’ former advisers surface at Microsoft

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Microsoft is loading up on policy and political expertise, including hiring the Prime Minister’s former media director and a one-time Tech Council head of policy as the US giant...

Sprawling tech projects trigger contract management probe

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Parliament’s powerful audit committee will probe how agencies manage contracts after damning audits – including investigations of two Accenture technology projects – revealed serious capability and probity gaps. The...

Govt’s global tax floor to hit tech titans

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Landmark legislation introduced on Thursday could see digital platforms giants like Google and some of the government’s biggest tech suppliers forced to “top up” their local tax bill if...

AWS to build govt’s $2bn Top Secret cloud

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The Commonwealth’s most sensitive data will be stored across Amazon Web Services facilities and shared with Defence and national intelligence agencies through a new Top Secret Cloud from 2027....

CDR architect says hold the course as banks blast scheme

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The architect of Australia’s consumer data right is calling for patience with the four-year-old scheme and teased additional future benefits after banks on Wednesday warned almost no one was...