The Federal Government has abandoned plans to grant law enforcement agencies unfettered freedom to intercept communications from multiple devices that are not listed in a warrant, yielding to pressure exerted by the privacy lobby.
Australian Privacy Commissioner, Karen Curtis, has reiterated her organisation's call for mandatory reporting of major data security breaches to the Australian Law Reform Commission as part of its review of Australian privacy laws.
Gathered at the Legal Futures Conference at California's Stanford University over the weekend, online legal experts have again raised their concerns that the rise and rise of Web 2.0 has come at the expense of individual privacy.
Australian High Court Judge Justice Kirby has said computer code is more potent than the law -- and legislators are powerless to do anything about it.
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.
Are Australia's privacy laws slowly killing Australians by preventing medical professionals gaining access to patient information?
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.
Last week's blog on why consumers might be confused by contradictory messages on computer security from banks drew a few objections from interested parties ones that I thought would be worth responding to this week.
Phil Zimmermann, the man who created the PGP encryption product, believes that Moore's Law and surveillance cameras make for a particularly dangerous cocktail.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other legislation have made data retention a hot topic. But about the flip side of the coin -- what happens when your data has finally served its purpose?
IT lawyer and ZDNet Australia columnist Jeremy Szwider looks at the legalities of e-mail forwarding.
IT managers and CIOs need to take care in the details when signing contracts with software suppliers, to avoid expensive and time-consuming problems later. ZDNet Australia examines the pressing issues surrounding IT contract negotiation.
Top executives should face prison if their organisations are found to be responsible for losing customer data.
The Korean government has ruled that by next year, domestic manufacturers must ensure that mobile phones emit a loud shutter-like click or noise when the camera is activated.
Personalisation has become an accepted part of technological interaction, but what does the future hold?
A sturdy Samsung clamshell mobile phone with an excellent VGA camera that has a range of modes and effects.
Samsung's E800 is an easy-to-use fashion slider phone that works well and looks great.
Google's new Web mail service is free and provides a gigabyte of storage, but also raises privacy concerns. We put the beta version through its paces.
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
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