Tag: Home Affairs

Tech sector regulation is becoming a tangled web

Posted on   |  by Simon Bush
Technology is no longer the new frontier; it’s not an ungoverned or unregulated place. As COVID has demonstrated, digital technologies are now core to our economy and society, and...

Home Affairs-led ‘permissions capability’ to launch this week

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The first iteration of the federal government’s permissions capability will launch this week, serving to digitise the Covid-19 declarations of incoming passengers and coinciding with the reopening of Australia’s...

Wait continues for facial recognition database legislation

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Amendments to the federal government’s highly controversial facial recognition database legislation were referred to the powerful national security committee nearly two years ago but an inquiry has yet to be...

Govt ‘steamrolling’ ahead with facial recognition plan

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Despite the necessary legislation not having been passed, the federal government is “streamrolling” ahead with its plan to launch a national facial recognition database and is already on the...

Authorities begin using ‘extraordinary’ new hacking powers

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australian authorities have begun using their controversial “extraordinary” new hacking warrants, allowing them to “disrupt” the data of suspected offenders and access their online accounts. The Identify and Disrupt...

Accenture enlisted for national crime intelligence platform

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Irish domiciled global giant Accenture has been brought in to assist with the delivery of the government’s new national crime intelligence platform which aims to offer the first Australian-wide...

Digital arrival cards still not in use, while funding kept secret

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
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...