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    The government will "carefully consider" the impact of new and emerging technologies on Australia's privacy legislation.

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    E-commerce solutions company IT&e Limited has been given the go ahead to develop an Australian and New Zealand Crime Prevention Web site.

  • Woodside: Government is leaking corporate secrets

    The general manager of security and emergency management for Woodside Petroleum has publicly accused government staff of leaking commercially sensitive information that was provided under the Trusted Information Sharing Network (TISN).

  • NSW throws itself on the mercy of the e-court

    After a prolonged but successful trial, the NSW Attorney-General has officially launched JusticeLink, an online judicial network allowing lawyers and judges to engage in some court hearings and proceedings over the Internet.

  • Australia crumbles under Cyber Storm attack

    The 55 Australian organisations that took part in Australia's cyberwar games, Cyber Storm II suffered "death by a thousand cuts", according to the head of Australia's Cyber Storm II effort.

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    The federal Attorney General, Philip Ruddock, has introduced amendments to federal parliament that would ease police access to stored voice-mails, e-mails and text messages.

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

  • UK: Data breach offences deserve jail time

    Top executives should face prison if their organisations are found to be responsible for losing customer data.

  • FAQ: Yahoo-Google ad deal's antitrust scrutiny

    Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.

  • CommVault boosts ANZ wins

    Data management provider CommVault Systems bagged a whopping 48 new customers in Australia and New Zealand between April and June, the company said in a statement.

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    In terms of a legal conduct remedy for Microsoft, Larry Seltzer thinks that giving a judge the power to control an OS would be like asking software engineers to write laws.

  • SCO vs the Linux world...What's a Linux user to do?

    Commentary: SCO's lawsuit against IBM has sparked controversy in the open-source world - here are some things for Linux users to consider.

  • Red Hat, Sun to boost desktop Linux

    Red Hat and Sun Microsystems are gearing up to sell Linux for desktop computers, the companies' chief executives said Tuesday.

  • Virus writers: If we can't kill them (and we can't), then what?

    From the reaction to Friday's column --in which I kiddingly called for death to virus writers--it's easy to tell who has had to deal with viruses and who hasn't. People who've spent hours, even days, undoing the work of these computer terrorists, whose crimes inflict tremendous damage on people they can't possibly know, seem to appreciate my viewpoint more than most.

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