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  • Australia slides into surveillance society

    According to a new international privacy report, governments around the world are increasingly invading the privacy of citizens with surveillance, identification systems and archiving of private data -- and Australia is no exception.

  • CrimTrac pre-election debut doubtful

    The Commonwealth's last election promise to have its information system CrimTrac fully operational within three years isn't far off track, although a pre-election unveiling is unlikely.

  • Mankind goes into storage

    With a national DNA database in the pipeline, ZDNet decided to take a look at the technology backbone that will support it and the privacy issues surrounding the initiative.

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