Oh look, everyone … another data breach!
LivingSocial, an international social service network with a presence in Australia, acknowledged last week it had been hacked, with exposure of information about…
The new virtual postman: Australia Post is about to launch its Digital MailBox.
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Australia Post have every reason to be pleased with their role in the online shopping revolution. They are central to the process by providing a means of converting the virtual into the real, by delivering…
Facebook is no slouch at putting names to faces.
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It may be time to move beyond Facebook’s assurance of its trustworthiness and specifically restrict the company’s use of face recognition. Changes within Facebook Europe would seem to suggest so.
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Proposals to extend our national security agencies' surveillance powers over our electronic communications has caused much controversy.
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In the “age of the social graph”, it is possible to profile people by tracking their relationships with friends and associates rather than by looking at the content of their communications.
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Thanks to digital medium such as email and Facebook, privacy is being eroded in the workplace – yet Australians appear to show a worrying lack of concern about this.
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The development of digital monitoring and surveillance has increased dramatically over the past decade and pervades all aspects of everyday life, to the extent that most people don’t even notice it.
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