Big Tech concerns with proposed misinformation and disinformation laws that will grant new powers to the Australian Communications and Media Authority are âvery validâ, according to the regulatorâs chair...
Australiaâs privacy and communications regulators have launched coordinated investigations into the Optus data breach that saw the personal data of 9.8 million Australians compromised last month. The inquiries will...
Digital transparency, the examination of algorithms and their impact, and increased collaboration between agencies have been identified as 2022-23 priorities for the Digital Platform Regulators Forum, a collective of...
The resignation of Digital Transformation Agency chief Gavin Slater highlights the curiously circular thinking behind governmentâs ambitions to deliver better digital services to the Australian people. That thinking has...
Newly-appointed DTA chief Gavin Slater concedes he has a lot to learn about his new role after an embarrassing first appearance at the Senate estimates where his political impartiality...
The Government’s GovPass digital identity system will be firmly opt-in â citizens who don’t wish to use the streamlined platform and its biometric component won’t have to. According to...
The Turnbull Government has named one-time National Australia Bank technology chief Gavin Slater as the new chief executive officer at its Digital Transformation Agency. Mr Slater had been a...
Malcolm Turnbullâs pet project, the Digital Transformation Agency, was put under intense scrutiny at the Senate Estimates last week, with revelations the organisation no longer sees itself as a...
It has been an extraordinary start to the year for digital transformation in the public sector. Certainly the very real failings of the Centrelink automated debt recovery system have...
The high error rate of Centrelinkâs automated debt recovery operation is âcatastrophicâ, âshockingâ, âappallingâ and âextremely preventable,â according to the Turnbull Governmentâs former digital transformation tsar Paul Shetler. And...