A French tech firm was awarded $180 million in contracts by the federal government to replace the ageing fingerprints matching database due to a lack of expertise internally to...
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New South Wales’ troubled digital voting system will not be used for the upcoming state and local government by-elections and needs “extensive reconfiguration and testing” following tech glitches late...
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The ABC will require users of its iview streaming service to log-in to continue watching this year, and will share their data with tech giants by default, despite repeated...
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Consultation has begun on the last round of the government’s significant critical infrastructure reforms which include the power to require companies deemed to be “nationally significant” to install software...
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Australia has secured an expedited data-sharing deal with the United States, but won’t be able to officially sign it until the second half of next year, after the federal...
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Company directors, HR managers, and senior executives in public sector departments, received more bad news last week. Just when they would have been hoping they had seen the end...
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Three and half years after appointing an interim National Data Commissioner to build-out federal data policy frameworks, the government has launched the first ever Australian Data Strategy. The strategy,...
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Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews has not yet been briefed on the crypto currency data sharing ‘travel’ rule and the federal government has no intention of developing a technology...
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The failure of New South Wales’ digital voting system during the recent council elections, just days after the state government declared electronic voting would be “easy”, should be a...
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The pandemic and the emergence of new technologies has created “fertile ground” for Australian companies to innovate, according to Verizon Asia-Pacific vice-president Rob Le Busque. There is a growing...
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The federal government will unveil its first data strategy in the coming weeks, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying it would bring “tangible benefits” to all Australians. Addressing the...
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The Digital Transformation Agency has entered its third iteration, according to its newest boss, and will focus on data and cross-jurisdiction services after being stripped of its technology and...
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Australia’s privacy watchdog found no areas of high privacy risk in an assessment of the Big Four banks’ Consumer Data Right policies and practices but did identify at least...
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There are “serious concerns” over the Victorian government’s “unprecedented plan” to establish a centralised health data sharing system which would store information such as prescribed medications and hospital admissions,...