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  • UK government in massive personal data loss

    The UK government has admitted that its Revenue & Customs department has lost the details of 25 million individuals after two disks went missing in the mail.

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    The government today introduced the Access Card Bill to parliament, which has raised concerns and criticisms from privacy advocates and the opposition, who suggest the move will burden Australians with an expensive and unnecessary national ID card.

  • HP to pay US$105 million to settle Canada dispute

    Hewlett-Packard will reimburse the Canadian government US$105 million (146 million Canadian dollars) to resolve a contractual dispute, but plans legal action to recover the money from the parties it says are responsible, the Palo Alto computer and printer maker said Friday.

  • Identity fraud costs Australia AU$1 billion a year

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    Bill Gibson, CIO of the Australian Tax office, spoke to ZDNet.com.au about why he doesn't completely trust open source software; how the ATO handles security and why competing vendors will have to learn to work together.

  • Identity fraud costs Australia AU$1 billion a year

    Identity fraud cost the Australian community AU$1.1 billion in 2001/02, according to a report released by a senior Minister, who also acknowledged the rapid subsequent growth of the problem.

  • UPDATE: AU government to ban spam

    The federal government intends to introduce legislation that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston announced today.

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