According to a new international privacy report, governments around the world are increasingly invading the privacy of citizens with surveillance, identification systems and archiving of private data -- and Australia is no exception.
Inmates at Canberra's first prison will wear radio frequency identification (RFID) bracelets or anklets to track their location, under plans by government.
New technology can mean an end to old liberties and there's little we can do to stop the surveillance state. But maybe we can turn the cameras on the watchers.
For more than 30 years, HAL fans have wondered whether we'd achieve true artificial intelligence (AI) by 2001. Of course, many AI components remain purely science fiction. But take a closer look, and you'll find many HAL-inspired technologies going mainstream next year.
It's a tough life trying to show off a state-of-the-art security monitoring system -- especially when helpful humans keep ruining the demo.
At NICTA's recent Techfest conference, researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) get to show off the projects they have been working on all year, including facial recognition tech designed to help catch criminals as well as better algorithms and sensors for traffic control.
In 2020, datacentres are estimated to be cleaner, greener and more flexible but will they be any safer?
Phil Zimmermann, the man who created the PGP encryption product, believes that Moore's Law and surveillance cameras make for a particularly dangerous cocktail.
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