Confidential personal information gathered by Victorian government agencies "can be, and has been, easily compromised", according to a report published today by the state's Auditor General.
Centrelink staff have again come under fire for 367 breaches of privacy regulations governing the Commonwealth public sector.
Privacy advocates fear that the long-awaited overhaul to Australia's 20 year old Privacy Act will die before it ever sees the light of day.
The Australian Law Reform Commission has given the thumbs up to the introduction of data breach disclosure laws in Australia, which would put it in line with current US and European legislation.
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.
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.
One wouldn't expect the price and privacy-conscious public sector to shop at Harvey Norman. But occasionally they do.
Could monitoring Web surfing habits of employees be used by HR managers as a staff morale barometer?
Could cloud computing be used to deliver a national driver's license registration scheme that was sold to states as a service? Probably not, say four Queensland Government IT chiefs, including state CIO Alan Chapman.
In the tragic circumstances that unfolded in Victoria on Black Saturday, no one could deny that as the fires raced across public land towards their homes, those residents had a clear right to information.
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?
IBM's Grady Booch says developers can no longer just dash off code without thinking about the larger implications.
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