
New year resolution to protect your data
Any device connected to the internet exposes personal data to potential risk. Paul Haskell-Dowland and Steven Furnell explain how to minimise the threat.
Any device connected to the internet exposes personal data to potential risk. Paul Haskell-Dowland and Steven Furnell explain how to minimise the threat.
The Government has the legal power to track mobile phones and users as part of limiting coronavirus spread. Other countries are doing it and Australia should consider it, says Patrick Fair.
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Facebook will pay a record $US5 billion ($A7.2 billion) fine to resolve a government probe into its privacy practices and will boost safeguards on user data, the US Federal Trade Commission and the social media company say.
From Facebook on our phones to CCTV in our public places, a booming culture of constant surveillance is threatening our freedom, argues Adelaide writer Stephen Orr. Why, then, do so few of us care?
The Federal Government’s latest attempt to expand surveillance of citizens is out of proportion to the threat facing Australians, writes Morry Bailes.
The Federal Government must strengthen protections in its rollout of digital health records to protect vulnerable people, including children, writes Law Council president Morry Bailes.
The Federal Government’s proposed identity-matching legislation has the potential to lift government surveillance of citizens to a new and unjustified level, writes Law Council of Australia president Morry Bailes.