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News (20)

• Staff sacked after widespread privacy breaches at Centrelink

  Centrelink staff have again come under fire for 367 breaches of privacy regulations governing the Commonwealth public sector.

• Will Australia's privacy overhaul be dumped?

  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.

• Australia 'must overhaul data disclosure mess'

  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.

• 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.

• UK Govt offers 20,000 for data worth 1.5bn

  The UK Government is offering up to 20,000 to anyone that finds Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs' lost CDs -- but critics say the information is worth 1.5bn on the black market.

Blogs (2)

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  Why I hate the Privacy Commissioner's office

  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.

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  Even the feds shop at Harvey Norman

  One wouldn't expect the price and privacy-conscious public sector to shop at Harvey Norman. But occasionally they do.

Features and Case Studies (8)

• Two sides to privacy

  Could monitoring Web surfing habits of employees be used by HR managers as a staff morale barometer?

• Queenslanders debate cloud computing

  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.

• Crown copyright still a challenge

  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.

• 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?

• Debating the morality behind software development

  IBM's Grady Booch says developers can no longer just dash off code without thinking about the larger implications.

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