The World Wide Web Consortium's Lorrie Cranor urges Webmasters to adopt better privacy regulations. Her message: Now is the time to start acting more responsibly.
The Federal Treasury has issued a tender seeking privacy consultancy services for the government's Special Business Reporting initiative, a scheme to simplify regulated reporting processes for Australian businesses.
The requirements of the Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorism Financing Act came into effect today after continual calls from privacy advocates to scrap the controversial legislation.
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.
After a string of high level data loss incidents, Opposition MPs in the UK have condemned the government for failing to protect the personal information of tens of millions of Britons stored across numerous public services.
According to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's 2007 annual report, Australian consumers should feel pretty safe but that's because it's full of crap.
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The World Wide Web Consortium's Lorrie Cranor urges Webmasters to adopt better privacy regulations. Her message: Now is the time to start acting more responsibly.
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Google denies the information it collects from users of its Google Election platform causes any tension between its commercial interests and its promise to protect users' privacy.
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.
Discovering how your favourite search engine protects your privacy is not an easy task, despite recent moves from the major players to make policies more transparent.
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McAfee Internet Security 2009 does a reasonable job, but it also leaves room for improvement.
Microsoft has updated its XP operating system so network managers will be able to assign each user with a separate encryption key.
The new wave of hybrid PDA business phones are here. The gadget gurus from RMIT decide who talks the talk.
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In this exclusive video interview, Optus chief information officer Lawrie Turner speaks to ZDNet.com.au about being the IT head for Australia's number two telco.
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