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...
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COVID-19 digital vaccination certificates can now be integrated with the Service NSW app, allowing users to confirm their status when they check in to venues with a single app....
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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...
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The facial recognition and geo-location technology being used in home quarantine trials lacks robust privacy protections, digital rights groups have told state and federal health ministers, warning the data...
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Victoria’s COVID-19 digital vaccine certificates are “woefully insecure” and “very easy” to forge in just minutes, according to a number of developers and cryptography experts who have criticised the...
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The Greens and the Australian Lawyers Alliance are pushing for COVID-19 contact tracing check-in data to be used only for health reasons, following successful attempts by law-enforcement authorities in...
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The Technology Council of Australia has called on both major political parties to back its plan to deliver one million tech jobs by 2025 as the new industry group...
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There is “no rational reason” for the way Australian governments are currently planning to roll out digital COVID-19 vaccination certificates, which is less secure and more damaging to privacy...
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The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Western Australia has unveiled the first stage of a $48 million public research supercomputer billed as the fastest in the Southern Hemisphere. Early adopter...
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Saudi human rights activist and author Manal al-Sharif says Australians are complacent about the rapid growth in digital surveillance and the impact of tech and media monopolies on freedom...
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South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has lauded the state’s home quarantine app as a “great innovation” and revealed plans to expand its use around the nation as Australia’s borders...
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The Australian Government will appeal a Federal Court decision to allow machines to be recognised as inventors on a patent application, arguing the recognition is “incompatible” with Australian patent...
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Technology behemoth Microsoft has announced that it is expanding into South Australia, bringing its Azure Space team to Adelaide’s Lot Fourteen space precinct. As part of the expansion, Microsoft...
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After being frustrated with the “patchwork” vaccine booking platforms on offer from Australian governments, software engineer Ken Tsang decided to build his own. In doing so, he has already...