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• Australia needs ID-theft laws: Minister

  The Federal Minister for Home Affairs, Bob Debus has encouraged state and territory governments to introduce new laws to combat identity theft but observers have cast doubt over their potential effectiveness.

• Access Card killed off by election?

  The upcoming election could prove a fatal blow to the government's Access Card plans, with privacy advocates encouraging a voter rebellion on the issue and Labor promising to drop the project if elected to government.

• Access card to go ahead despite backlash: Govt

  Opposition parties and privacy groups are warning that Australians may still be forced to carry the government's controversial Access Card should the Liberal Party win the upcoming federal election.

• Giving privacy the credit it deserves

  Whilst the government is playing the role of pamphleteer and busily promoting a safe environment for online credit card transactions, it is being condemned for privacy legislation "so full of holes" that it actually discourages consumer confidence in the use of credit cards over the Net.

• National fraud database may be linked to RTA records

  Baycorp Advantage claims to be close to linking its national FraudCheck system to the Roads and Traffic Authority's driver's licence database.

Features and Case Studies (27)

• Establish a strategy for security breach notification

  Even if your organisation takes every possible precaution to protect its data, a security breach is often inevitable. What do you do if it happens? Mike Mullins offers some pointers for notifying those affected.

• One billion passports to get biometrics, RFID by 2015

  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.

• ID theft: Separating myth from reality

  Is online identity theft as rife as the widespread media reports would suggest? We find out whether the risks are real.

• Caught in a phishing trap?

  The rise in online identity fraud has companies on the hook: Either educate customers or lose them.

• Search engines reveal privacy policies

  Discovering how your favourite search engine protects your privacy is not an easy task, despite recent moves from the major players to make policies more transparent.

Reviews (8)

• Old hard drives yield data bonanza

  Two MIT graduate students say they found personal and corporate information on used disk drives bought off the Internet and at swap meets.

• Norton Confidential beta

  While Norton Confidential beta from Symantec aims to protect your online transactions, and its antisphishing toolbar compares favourably to Netcraft's own offering, we found the Norton package to be overly large, including many other Symantec applets that seem unnecessary.

• Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2006

  PC-cillin Internet Security 2006 has a few shortcomings, but overall it's an affordable and feature-packed security suite that reliably defends against online threats.

• Helping the public travel smarter

  Smart cards are anticipated to be the next generation in public transport ticketing systems. What are the obstacles faced in implementing them?

• To catch a spy: Anti-spyware tools reviewed

  Spyware is gaining more mindshare amongst IT departments and security vendors alike. We round up eight tools that take on the undercover software.

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