A broad coalition of more than 300 people working in or around the tech sector will gather in Sydney on Wednesday morning to put a voice to concerns about...
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The national privacy and information regulator would get a $25 million funding boost and stronger penalties would be introduced for tech giants that oversee data breaches under a government policy...
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A showdown has been set in the Senate over the Consumer Data Right legislation, with Labor pledging to move a number of amendments after a government-led committee gave the...
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Something needs to be done about the concentration of digital advertising around Facebook and Google, with both regularly changing the rules so there is little consistency or clarity, according...
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A move by Australia’s biggest telcos to arbitrarily block several websites following the Christchurch terrorist attack is a “slippery slope” and sets a “very worrying precedent”, according to former...
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The only way to mitigate the consistent and persistent “negative externalities” of Facebook and other social media platforms is through government intervention. Self-regulation has been a disaster for the...
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An extra $67.2 million earmarked for the government’s digital ID project is just one of several tech investments to be featured in next month’s budget, according to outgoing digital...
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Adelaide has been announced as the home of the seventh city deal that will see all three levels of governments work together over the next 10 years to grow...
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Automation and artificial intelligence present “compelling opportunities” for the Australian public sector to deliver better services to the public, but internal skills gaps need to be addressed urgently, the...
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The federal government will develop a national blockchain roadmap and kick-in a further $100,000 for the study, despite its Digital Transformation Agency recently saying the new technology is at...
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The only people in Australia specifically excluded from the controversial encryption laws are the very people who rushed the legislation through on the final sitting day of 2018, our...
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A new regulatory framework for initial coin offerings proposed by federal government posed “a significant risk of fettering innovation”, according to a FinTech industry group. Government is actively considering...
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Australia’s signals intelligence agency has outlined publicly for the first time how it decides when to make a security vulnerability public, and when to keep it secret and later...
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A coalition of tech sector business leaders and industry groups have come together at the eleventh hour to voice concerns to government about its controversial new encryption laws, the...