The Greens missed a huge opportunity to deliver billions of dollars for the environment by refusing to negotiate over the sale of Telstra, retiring Liberal Senator and former Howard minister Rod Kemp said yesterday.
Release of a new five-year federal e-government strategy, originally planned for late this year, is now likely to slip to early next year, according to government sources.
The federal government confirmed work was underway on a proposal to deploy smartcards to millions of Australians under a project to slash administrative costs and crack down on identity theft.
The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, announced today that the Spam Act 2003 will be reviewed next year and hinted that the government's main focus will be to stop spam that originates from overseas.
Company directors who do not ensure their IT systems are protected by an adequate disaster recovery plan are being "negligent", according to Joe Hockey, the Minister for Human Services.
In the broadband war, it seems, everyone has an opinion and those with a vested interest are playing fast and loose with the truth.
New political and technological circumstances dictate the creation of a more complete system of information sharing which can inevitably protect individuals.
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.
Last-minute attempt fails to derail the bill, which with President Bush's signature would require federalised IDs for all Americans.
The biggest loser in this week's budget was broadband -- not one cent was allocated to improve infrastructure works. However, security was the winner with funding confirmed to fight intellectual property crime and cyber-terrorist attacks.
The Australian Labor Party's ICT shadow minister wants a national fibre broadband network and enough skilled people to exploit it.
Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.
The Queensland government has used its buying power to increase mobile coverage within the state, after it "got tired of waiting for the federal government to do something".
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