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Prime Minister Scott Morrison continues to encourage Australians to use the government’s forthcoming COVID-19 contact tracing app. While he and the relevant ministers are doing their best to reassure us that our privacy will be preserved, it seems there’s still a lot of mistrust out there.
Continue reading “Talking COVID-19 tracing apps (again) on ABC Adelaide”
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is ramping up the pressure for Australians to use a COVID-19 contact tracing that that hasn’t even been written yet — and more importantly hasn’t even been shown to be something that’d be useful in the first place.
Continue reading “Talking COVID-19 tracing apps on ABC Brisbane and the Gold Coast”
Australians are being urged to work from home, thanks to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, but that raises some technological challenges. Will Australia’s NBN be overloaded? What are the cybersecurity risks?
Continue reading “Talking coronavirus work-from-home NBN overload and cybersecurity stuff on ABC Canberra”
Chinese telco equipment manufacturer Huawei continues to be banned from Australia’s 5G rollout. I spoke about that a short time ago on ABC Adelaide, along with a representative of Huawei Australia.
Continue reading “Talking Huawei on ABC Adelaide”
One of the more interesting periods of my life was when I worked on The Core magazine in Adelaide in the early 1990s. I spoke about that time on ABC Adelaide this week.
Continue reading “Talking “The Core” on ABC Adelaide”It’s almost 20 years since Google was founded, and it’s fair to say that at least some of the company’s services have become a part of almost every internet user’s life. But what did we do before Google?
There were other search engines, of course, but what about before the web was a thing?
On Friday I discussed this question with ABC Adelaide presenter Peter Goers, along with librarian Nikki White from the National Library of Australia.
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