The Minister for Communications Information and the Arts, Daryl Williams, assured telecommunications companies and consumers that the Communications Legislation Amendment Bill will not violate individual privacy.
GPS technology is being used in the US to track sex offenders, violent criminals and even children jigging school.
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US privacy advocates are questioning Facebook's latest revenue spinner, Social Ads, for possibly breaching 19th century laws designed to protect celebrities from being exploited in print media.
Privacy legislation recently passed by Australia's Parliament could be among the first laws to fall short of complying with a strict European Union directive banning the flow of personal information about European citizens to countries with inadequate privacy protections.
Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.
The former United States undersecretary of state for security says that identity authentication is crucial to stopping terrorists.
More information is dribbling out about the exercise of extraordinary powers granted to federal police since Sept 11. We unmask the Patriot Act.
MailGuard's Andrew Johnson and MessageLabs' Nick Hawkins -- the leaders of two popular managed e-mail services specialists -- go head to head.
What may surprise today's IT leaders are the serious security issues posed by IM usage. Add that to the fact that most IM applications are used without corporate IT's knowledge or approval, and it's not a pretty picture for network security.
Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.
Because networks increase the number of interdependencies among machines, they tend to magnify problems. As the saying goes, "Networking is when you can’t get any work done because of the failure of a machine you have never even heard of."
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