items tagged with Privacy
Google boosting quality of Street View images [update]
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-11-03 00:24:37
Google's Street View is getting a makeover, with new, higher-quality images being collected in major Australian cities.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-11-03 00:24:37
Google's Street View is getting a makeover, with new, higher-quality images being collected in major Australian cities.
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Google boosting quality of Street View images
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-11-01 16:08:35
Google's Street View is getting a makeover, with new, higher-quality images being collected in major Australian cities.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-11-01 16:08:35
Google's Street View is getting a makeover, with new, higher-quality images being collected in major Australian cities.
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Offshore personal data: Trust us, say banks
Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news
Category: Outsourcing
2009-10-27 01:59:22
The Australian Bankers Association has rejected calls for bank customers to be given an explicit choice about whether personal information is processed offshore or in Australia, and said its members were already required get consent from customers about the handling of data when they signed up for services.
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Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news
Category: Outsourcing
2009-10-27 01:59:22
The Australian Bankers Association has rejected calls for bank customers to be given an explicit choice about whether personal information is processed offshore or in Australia, and said its members were already required get consent from customers about the handling of data when they signed up for services.
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Google steps up privacy with crypto fairy dust
Written By: Beverley Head
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-10-15 16:21:16
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Written By: Beverley Head
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-10-15 16:21:16
Health minister Nicola Roxon may envisage a future where Google hosts Australians’ heath records, but the global search giant isn’t ready to launch Google Health in Australia just yet.
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New privacy issues with strip search machines
Written By: David Heath
Section: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
Category: All things technical
2009-10-14 06:56:21
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Written By: David Heath
Section: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
Category: All things technical
2009-10-14 06:56:21
A recently announced privacy issue with airport security in Canada lifted the lid on a much bigger problem with the so-called 'strip search machines.'
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Feds: Privacy overhaul 'technology neutral'
Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2009-10-14 02:38:45
In the most comprehensive set of reforms in a generation, the Rudd Government will overhaul privacy law in Australia, harmonising privacy treatment across Federal and State jurisdictions, and "future proofing" these protections against technology change.
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Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2009-10-14 02:38:45
In the most comprehensive set of reforms in a generation, the Rudd Government will overhaul privacy law in Australia, harmonising privacy treatment across Federal and State jurisdictions, and "future proofing" these protections against technology change.
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Is your printer spying on you?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-09-30 06:45:57
Probably the last thing you are worried about is someone hacking into your printer. After all why would anyone want to do that?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Hardware
2009-09-30 06:45:57
Probably the last thing you are worried about is someone hacking into your printer. After all why would anyone want to do that?
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Threats to privacy in proposed new intercept rules averted, says EFA
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-29 18:24:57
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) says its concerns with draft amendments to telecommunications interception legislation have been addressed in the bill as tabled.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-29 18:24:57
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) says its concerns with draft amendments to telecommunications interception legislation have been addressed in the bill as tabled.
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Adobe $1.8B purchase raises spectre of more web snooping
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-09-16 03:08:48
Adobe has agreed to acquire web analytics specialist Omniture. Does this have privacy implications for Flash?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-09-16 03:08:48
Adobe has agreed to acquire web analytics specialist Omniture. Does this have privacy implications for Flash?
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Security, privacy concern impede cloud computing take-up
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2009-09-16 00:14:32
Security and privacy concerns, and the integration of cloud-based applications with existing systems, are the biggest barriers to adoption of cloud computing, although security and privacy easily outweighs other issues, including integration, as the major concern for enterprise users when considering cloud adoption.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2009-09-16 00:14:32
Security and privacy concerns, and the integration of cloud-based applications with existing systems, are the biggest barriers to adoption of cloud computing, although security and privacy easily outweighs other issues, including integration, as the major concern for enterprise users when considering cloud adoption.
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Dob in Big Brother: awards recognise invasions of personal privacy
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-27 00:31:07
Know of somebody or something that has exhibited blatant disregard for the privacy of the individual? Well now you can give them the recognition they richly deserve by voting for them in The Australian Privacy Foundation's Big Brother awards: accepting submissions this year from the general public for the first time.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-08-27 00:31:07
Know of somebody or something that has exhibited blatant disregard for the privacy of the individual? Well now you can give them the recognition they richly deserve by voting for them in The Australian Privacy Foundation's Big Brother awards: accepting submissions this year from the general public for the first time.
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Australian data breaches on the increase
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-10 22:01:04
Almost 70 percent of Australian businesses and organisations were hit by one or more data breach incidents in the past year, a major increase on the situation in the previous 12 months.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-10 22:01:04
Almost 70 percent of Australian businesses and organisations were hit by one or more data breach incidents in the past year, a major increase on the situation in the previous 12 months.
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AIIA proposes 'opt-out' plan for eHealth card
Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2009-07-29 00:41:51
Government may need to include an opt-out mechanism with its plans to assign an individual healthcare number to all Australians as the best way to address legitimate privacy security concerns, Australian Information Industries Association chief executive Ian Birks said.
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Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2009-07-29 00:41:51
Government may need to include an opt-out mechanism with its plans to assign an individual healthcare number to all Australians as the best way to address legitimate privacy security concerns, Australian Information Industries Association chief executive Ian Birks said.
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Poor eHealth records can cost lives too
Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2009-07-14 03:55:49
Australian Government claims that an Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI) would reduce avoidable deaths in the healthcare system has been dismissed by privacy advocates, who say poor records management was also a problem in eHealth.
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Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2009-07-14 03:55:49
Australian Government claims that an Individual Healthcare Identifier (IHI) would reduce avoidable deaths in the healthcare system has been dismissed by privacy advocates, who say poor records management was also a problem in eHealth.
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Privacy fight shaping for eHealth
Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2009-07-13 02:45:33
The battle lines are being drawn for the biggest privacy fight since Joe Hockey’s 2005 smartcard proposal, this time focused on Rudd Government plans for a unique citizen identifier number in the health sector.
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Written By: James Riley
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Government
2009-07-13 02:45:33
The battle lines are being drawn for the biggest privacy fight since Joe Hockey’s 2005 smartcard proposal, this time focused on Rudd Government plans for a unique citizen identifier number in the health sector.
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Firefox 3.5 released
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-06-30 18:53:00
As promised, Firefox 3.5 was released on June 30, bringing a healthy performance boost and new features to the widely used open-source browser.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Open Source
2009-06-30 18:53:00
As promised, Firefox 3.5 was released on June 30, bringing a healthy performance boost and new features to the widely used open-source browser.
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NZ banks looking for competitive advantage with technology
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: News feature
Category: Security
2009-06-16 07:44:19
New Zealand banks are increasingly using technology to implement "countercyclical" strategies to maximise competitive advantage, with the banks last year spending in excess of NZ$450 million on IT services.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: News feature
Category: Security
2009-06-16 07:44:19
New Zealand banks are increasingly using technology to implement "countercyclical" strategies to maximise competitive advantage, with the banks last year spending in excess of NZ$450 million on IT services.
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Financial services group deploy Salmat biometric voice solution
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: News feature
Category: Security
2009-06-09 06:39:00
Salmat is claiming a first for the Australian life insurance and wealth management industry with deployment of its VeSecure voice biometric capability by the Australian arm of global financial services group, Aviva.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: News feature
Category: Security
2009-06-09 06:39:00
Salmat is claiming a first for the Australian life insurance and wealth management industry with deployment of its VeSecure voice biometric capability by the Australian arm of global financial services group, Aviva.
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Old photos never die
Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-05-21 15:11:14
A study from the University of Cambridge has found that photos shared on social sites are often still accessible even after the user has deleted them.
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Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-05-21 15:11:14
A study from the University of Cambridge has found that photos shared on social sites are often still accessible even after the user has deleted them.
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Amazon and Wikipedia phactor Phorm out of the privacy equation
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-21 19:49:09
Even if the UK Government is not going to stop Phorm spying on Internet users on privacy grounds, it looks like some of the biggest brands on the Web will.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-21 19:49:09
Even if the UK Government is not going to stop Phorm spying on Internet users on privacy grounds, it looks like some of the biggest brands on the Web will.
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