News (45)

  • 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.

  • GPS used to track criminals and truants in US

    GPS technology is being used in the US to track sex offenders, violent criminals and even children jigging school.

  • Microsoft tags Tech.Ed delegates

    Microsoft today announced plans to track Australian delegates attending its annual Tech.Ed conference in Sydney next week using RFID tags embedded in conference badges.

  • Corrupt US Customs agent sentenced for data deals

    A recent court case demonstrates, once again, the dangers of assembling massive police databases and trusting that law enforcement officers with access are paragons of virtue.

  • 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.

Features and Case Studies (8)

  • UK: Data breach offences deserve jail time

    Top executives should face prison if their organisations are found to be responsible for losing customer data.

  • 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.

  • PGP creator: Surveillance must be curbed

    Phil Zimmermann, the creator of the Pretty Good Privacy encryption tool, says that widespread surveillance is leading us into an Orwellian future.

  • With RFID, corporate might makes right

    Retail powerhouses such as Wal-Mart gather in the United States to push development of controversial tagging technology.

  • 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?

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