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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.

  • Coalition ranked worst for privacy in election run-up

    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.

  • Telcos eye compensation from network disclosure bill

    With legislation obliging telcos to share their network infrastructure details passed by the House of Representatives last night, it has been revealed that the government may compensate carriers for sharing their intellectual property.

  • Is the Access card dead or changing its identity?

    Labor needs to make an unequivocal commitment that it does not plan to scrap Howard's proposed Access Card and replace it with its own, according to civil liberties advocates.

  • Labor: Broadband central to Australia 2.0

    Labor leader Kevin Rudd has reinforced the importance of a high-speed national broadband network, describing it as the missing cog in the nation's future economic wheel.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Conroy scraps filter blacklist

    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'.

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Kevin Rudd is a cyber agent of KAOS

    This week the Australian online banking system was tested by an agent of KAOS Kevin Rudd and his $10 billion dollar fiscal package that, as Agent 86 would say, "missed it by that much" on knocking out the banking system.

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  • The good, the bad and the ugly

    What does the recent election result mean to those of us in the IT industry, and Australian employees in general?

  • Budget 2007: IT misses out on windfall

    The biggest loser in this week's budget was broadband -- not one cent was allocated to improve infrastructure works. However, security was the winner with funding confirmed to fight intellectual property crime and cyber-terrorist attacks.

  • 2007: How was it for security?

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

  • Protecting our borders: IT stands guard

    Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.

  • ACS filter report just what Conroy needs

    Yesterday's report from the Australian Computer Society's Filtering and E-Security Task Force will be a handy weapon in Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy's battle over internet censorship.

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