New international guidelines aimed at improving the safety of youngsters using social networking sites will be released today but privacy advocates are concerned that no young Australians were consulted.
Post a review of a book or other product on Amazon.com, and the information may find its way into the company's file on you.
While much has been made of the dangers of Internet pornography and online predators, far less attention has been given to the long-term educational and developmental impact the online world will have on this incredibly wired generation - the first to grow up with the Internet as part of their daily lives.
Telstra customers will receive the same service telco companies have been providing the law authorities for years, the ability to track people's location by their mobile phone.
The Federal government has insisted that a new Centrelink debit card is not a precursor to a national ID card, but a policy expert has claimed that it maintains some similarities to the previous government's failed Access Card.
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Many tech leaders tout single sign-on (SSO) as the Holy Grail of directory services and a key to password protection, but is it a security cure-all.
You are not defenseless in the fight against keystroke loggers. A program has been designed specifically to head off corporate spying programs, unlike antivirus and desktop security programs that can capture only some spy programs.
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.
Lee Siegel is a cultural critic who has written for The New York Times, Slate and The Nation. However, he is perhaps best known for what happened in 2006 when writing for The New Republic.
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