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 technology is being used in the US to track sex offenders, violent criminals and even children jigging school.
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.
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.
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.
Top executives should face prison if their organisations are found to be responsible for losing customer data.
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.
Phil Zimmermann, the creator of the Pretty Good Privacy encryption tool, says that widespread surveillance is leading us into an Orwellian future.
Retail powerhouses such as Wal-Mart gather in the United States to push development of controversial tagging technology.
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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