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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Defence Industry Minister Melissa Price will take control of the CSIRO and the Australian Space Agency while Energy Minister Angus Taylor will oversee the $1.3 billion Modern Manufacturing Initiative...
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A group of international technology associations, including the Australian Information Industry Association, have written to Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews with concerns about government fast-tracking parts of the Critical...
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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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Dr Orna Berry is a former Israel government chief scientist and head of Industrial Research and Development. She served as an officer in the air force, earned a PhD...
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The federal government will introduce tougher penalties for ransomware criminals and a mandatory incident reporting scheme for large businesses that suffer an attack under a new ransomware action plan...
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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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IDT Australia will go ahead with manufacturing an mRNA vaccine developed by Monash University as the long awaited technology finally reaches Australian shores. The basic technology behind the Pfizer...
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The opposition has urged the federal government to take a leading role on the waiver of COVID-19 vaccine-related intellectual property and form a global coalition in support of it,...
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The Australian-made rover expected to land on the moon later this decade should get there on an Australian-made rocket, according to a local space company which says it could...
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Professional drivers and elite race teams are turning to simulators to stay on track and in peak racing condition as Covid continues to disrupt global motorsports events from Formula...
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A government-led Senate committee has shot down a bill which would have outlawed the use of credit cards for online betting in Australia, claiming the proposal would limit choice...
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The industry department will pay two US consulting giants nearly $2 million in just over a month for “core” department work, with the public sector union saying this is “wasting...
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The latest effort by social media giants to combat misinformation on their platforms has been slammed by multiple organisations as a “total farce” and “woefully inadequate”, as federal government...