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  • UK prisoner data goes missing

    Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing after a Home Office contractor lost a USB stick on which it had been stored.

  • NSW Govt seeks new ID fraud laws

    Tough new laws aimed at clamping down on identity fraud are being drafted by the NSW government.

  • ACT prison to RFID tag inmates

    Almost two years after announcing its intention to use RFID to track prisoners and guards alike, it has been revealed that the ACT Department of Corrective Services has signed a deal to rollout the technology.

  • HP/EDS meeting with troubled UK workforce

    HP's UK division said it and subsidiary, IT outsourcer EDS, were meeting with employees to discuss where jobs would be cut following yesterday's announcement that 3,378 UK jobs will go over the next two years.

  • 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.

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  • An eye for an aye

    Australia is keeping pace with other governments in biometric usage but are we operating in a policy vacuum with technology that is far from perfect?

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

  • Collaborators at Google -- and beyond

    Charles Cooper says the tech industry should move beyond its take-it or leave-it approach to trade and human rights.

  • RFID tags: The people say no

    CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos says readers are united in their contempt for the idea of embedding chips in people.

  • The Internet worm comes of age

    The first Internet worm appeared 16 years ago and online security has never been the same, say security professionals.

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