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• Labor promise: 'We won't bring in new Access Card'

  The Department of Human Services has denied the Federal Labor government is investigating the introduction of a nationwide ID card scheme similar to the previous government's Access Card.

• Bosses can snoop on staff e-mails 'to fight terror'

  The Greens and privacy advocates have hit back against proposed laws to allow companies to snoop on their workers' e-mails, but Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said the laws are needed to protect vital electronic infrastructure from terrorist attacks.

• Welfare card won't morph into Access Card: Labor

  The Federal government has insisted that a new Centrelink debit card is not a precursor to a national ID card, but a policy expert has claimed that it maintains some similarities to the previous government's failed Access Card.

• 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.

• Controversy brews over phone call interception

  The Department of Defence has refused to comment on reports that a national information security agency passed on information to Government from intercepted private phone calls during last year’s Tampa crisis .

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• 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.

• 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?

• Election 07: Coonan vs Conroy

  With only weeks to go to the election, how are the main parties shaping up on their tech promises?

• 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.

• Web services: Messiah or mirage?

  Software vendors keep telling us that Web services are the answer. But what is the question? ZDNet Australia explores the state of Web services today.

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• The laptops that come in from the cold

  For those organisation who lose hundreds of thousands dollars worth of laptops to thieves each year, the humiliation of the loss is possibly as infuriating a burden to bare as the financial costs associated with it. However these organisations can assuage some of their distress knowing that their problems are shared by one of the world's most powerful law enforcement agencies. In May, thieves reduced the size of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's laptop fleet by 182, in one operation. If the FBI can't keep its laptops safe from thieves who can?

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