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The AI dilemma: Great potential, handle with care

When we mention AI, most people think about autonomy and technologies that replicate human senses or actions, such as machine vision, voice recognition, and factory automation. But there is...

Room to wriggle: Big Tech media bargaining code

For most of this year, the federal government has been stuck between a rock and a News Corp after announcing plans to force Facebook and Google to pay for...

Vic govt health database plan is a problem

The Victorian government is yet to consult with its own privacy office on a plan to store the health data of individuals in a database and share it with...

E-invoicing is boring, but worth billions to economy

The federal Treasury department has gone live with its automated e-invoicing system, using an all-Australian software platform developed by Brisbane-based ERP software giant Technology One and Adelaide-based Link4. With...

NSW to build a second Sydney Startup Hub

The New South Wales government is to fund the creation of a second Startup Hub located in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta in an investment designed to put...

Deloitte’s myGov beta work quietly tops $30m

The government has quietly handed Deloitte a further $1.2 million for work on the myGov beta to cover an additional two months’ work, with the consulting giant now having...

Selling to govt: Not simple and not transparent

Nearly three-quarters of individuals participating in the InnovationAus’ Selling to Government 2020 survey say the process for selling technology into the federal government is neither simple, nor transparent. And...

AFP’s new hacking powers referred to committee

The government will refer legislation handing sweeping hacking powers to the AFP to the Parliamentary intelligence and security committee amid concerns the extraordinary new powers would lead to “poisoned...

‘Grave concern’ over changes to Surveillance Act

The Law Council of Australia has “grave concern” about the government’s plan to remove judicial oversight from the issuing of warrants under a completely new Surveillance Act. In response...

Bank-backed FinTech platform Lygon is now live

Backed by a consortium including ANZ Bank, Westpac, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, IBM and Scentre Group, Lygon is a new digital platform that uses distributed Ledger technology to transform...

Stiglitz backs Australia’s Big Tech media code

Former World Bank chief economist and Nobel laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz has thrown his support behind Australia’s proposed mandatory news bargaining code for big tech companies, but said the...

Industry joins forces to boost digital literacy

In March this year, with COVID-19 starting to impact the Australian economy, the Federal Minister for Industry, Science, and Technology Karen Andrews convened a virtual roundtable of technology company...

AFP’s ‘expansion of authoritarian powers’

Authorities will be given the ability to take over the online accounts of Australians and hack into networks to change or delete data for alleged crimes that carry jail...

Local tech misses out on federal opportunities

The Digital Transformation Agency has signed its seventh whole-of-government purchasing agreement with a foreign-headquartered tech giant – this time it is with Oracle – with the expressed aim to...