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Tag: Privacy

Posted on 19 February 202320 February 2023

Digital developments from Canberra 25

Mark Dreyfus 025

This week there’s major progress on privacy law reform, no progress on the online services’ esafety codes, a big tax change, and more. Oh, and some Chinese-made cameras were removed from government offices, while Woolworths installed more cameras in their supermarkets.

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Posted on 23 December 202223 December 2022

Digital developments from Canberra 19

Mark Dreyfus 18

In the final weekdays before Christmas, we have a bunch of reports, although we only get to see the ASD’s government cybersecurity posture review. It contains depressing news.

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Posted on 02 December 202231 January 2023

Digital developments from Canberra 16

Anthony Albanese 16

This morning Parliament wrapped up for 2022, and a whole bunch of important things happened — including the passing of legislation for the National Anti-Corruption Commission and bigger data breach penalties, and an interesting selection of new bills.

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Posted on 08 October 202208 October 2022

Digital developments from Canberra 8

Mark Dreyfus 8

I was planning to skip this week, but the fallout from the Optus data breach means there’s a few things worth mentioning. There’s also a quantum thing… or is there?

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Posted on 30 January 202107 February 2021

Why I’m moving off WhatsApp to Signal and Telegram

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On 7 February 2021 I’m deleting WhatsApp from all my devices and using either Signal or, as my second choice for now, Telegram. You’ll have to find me there. Here’s why.

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Posted on 18 June 202018 June 2020

Talking facial recognition tech on ABC Adelaide

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The use of facial recognition technology for law enforcement has been in the media this week, not only in connection with the Black Lives Matter protests in the US, but also in Australia. That made for a good radio segment this afternoon with Jules Schiller on ABC Adelaide.

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