American tech giant IBM will be paid more than $26 million over the next two years to provide hardware and software to improve Services Australia’s capacity to deal with...
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It will be “extremely difficult” for civil society to properly contribute to a range of current tech-focused government consultations with submission periods running over the summer break. The government...
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The government’s permissions capability, providing digital incoming passenger declarations featuring vaccination status, is still not in use despite the international border reopening, and with the project’s funding to be...
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A bipartisan Senate committee has sounded the alarm over the potential for foreign interference through social media in the upcoming federal election, saying there needs to be a response...
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The federal government has allocated nearly $170 million to have another go at overhauling an aging fingerprints database used by law enforcement agencies, with all of this funding already...
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The NSW government has formally launched its identity support unit, a single point of contact in the state to support citizens and organisations impacted by identity crime. Called IDSupport...
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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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The Australian Federal Police breached privacy rules in its use of a controversial facial recognition tool by not properly assessing the risks of using the technology, the national privacy...
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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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The federal government still can’t appoint a full National Data Commissioner as a statutory role or get its data strategy off the ground due to a failure to get...
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Deloitte has landed a further $1 million for its work on the revamped myGov, with the new version of the government services platform entering its final stage of beta...
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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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Just eight McKinsey staff are being used on the company’s $2.5 million, three-month contract to provide advice to the federal government on local mRNA vaccine manufacturing, with the global...
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The federal government updated its $10 million COVIDSafe contact tracing app for the Delta variant in mid-October, more than five months after the more transmissible virus was first detected...