A senior associate from law firm Henry York Davis reckons Shadow Communications Minister Nick Minchin failed to adequately argue his case to have the $25,000 in fees to process his NBN document hunt waived.
Stephen Conroy's Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has refused the iiNet-backed Tech Wired Australia request to access the expert panel's recommendations on the National Broadband Network bids using freedom of information laws.
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.
The UK's privacy watchdog has slammed bosses of large companies for not taking security seriously.
Central Scotland Police is replacing parts of its open source infrastructure with Microsoft software following a review of its IT strategy.
In the tragic circumstances that unfolded in Victoria on Black Saturday, no one could deny that as the fires raced across public land towards their homes, those residents had a clear right to information.
Many now turn to the collaborative, democratic wiki form for fast news and history from different perspectives. But there are issues with accuracy and an author's agenda can be questionable. We look at the benefits and downsides of wikis.
For decades, the US government has had systems in place for dealing with military secrets. Security expert Bruce Schneier recounts how rules on secrecy were amended to meet a changing threat.
New political and technological circumstances dictate the creation of a more complete system of information sharing which can inevitably protect individuals.
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