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.
Anyone who recklessly loses personal data will face a "substantial" fine, after the UK government created a new civil offence.
Telstra has lost a federal government contract to provide telecommunications services to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).
New Australian laws designed to crack down on Internet harassment and usage of the medium to advocate violence have been met with a cautious reaction from online civil libertarians.
Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.
Like the engineers that sat down on day one with an empty blackboard and a mission to get man to the moon and back, building the NBN from the ground up is a daunting and complex opportunity that will present more than its share of challenges.
Communications minister Stephen Conroy today announced the controversial web filtering blacklist will be scrapped and be replaced with a whitelist-based filtering regime, to be administered by viewer voting through a family-friendly digital TV-only show called 'The White List'.
Pretty soon, the government will be screening and filtering our email as well as making blogs like this one disappear.
Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
For no particular reason that I can discern, a 1979 Kenny Rogers song popped into my head as I was considering the ever more complex morass that is the national broadband network tender which Senator Stephen Conroy defended in his CeBIT keynote speech.
Civil liberties groups from both sides of the Atlantic have joined forces to oppose the proposed introduction and cross-border sharing of biometrics and RFID in more than one billion passports worldwide.
The Pirate Party of Australia should forget about trying to win a Senate seat in the Federal Government and instead focus its sights on even lower hanging fruit. I speak, of course, of the state governments.
ZDNet.com.au presents the man behind the Twitter account: Fake Stephen Conroy lays out his digital agenda. And kitten-fishing.
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Australia is keeping pace with other governments in biometric usage but are we operating in a policy vacuum with technology that is far from perfect?
Before he starts work every day, Oscar Carranza places his hand in a biometric scanner that traces the contours of his palm and compares them to digital records in the airport's central database.
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