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    The Coalition has been rated bottom among the major parties on commitment to privacy issues, according to a report released by the Australian Privacy Foundation.

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  • Labor lips sealed on Access Card future

    Despite having taken a non-committal stance on the Access Card during the election campaign, privacy advocates are hopeful that Labor will scrap the project now that it has entered government.

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    New information at Google's disposal from its Google Election platform has raised alarm bells amongst privacy rights groups.

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    The offices of the Liberal party’s Richard Alston, the ALP’s Carmen Lawrence, the Democrats’ Brian Greig, the Green’s Kerry Nettle, and One Nation’s Pauline Hanson have all agreed to participate in an online forum on IT policies and promises in the run up to the 2001 Federal Election.

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    With only weeks to go to the election, how are the main parties shaping up on their tech promises?

  • Google: We live and die by trust

    Google denies the information it collects from users of its Google Election platform causes any tension between its commercial interests and its promise to protect users' privacy.

  • The principles of privacy

    Privacy has been the subject of scores of articles since the implementation of the privacy act last December, but what does it all really mean?

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    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

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