The ghost of the illegal robodebt scheme presents a major challenge.
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Has anyone tried to hack into your account, or have you received fake myGov messages? It’s that time of year.
The draft bill has a number of issues, ranging from an insecure mechanism that leaves people’s data vulnerable to attacks, to a lack of mandatory disclosure of data breaches.
Scammers have exploited a simple weakness in the myGov online portal to redirect hundreds of millions of dollars in tax refunds.
Without careful planning and implementation, the government risks making many of the same mistakes ushered in by the hasty ‘datafication’ of society, which has been turbocharged by the pandemic.
Australians will be able to show specific online proof if they have had two doses of a COVID jab.
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Researcher, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub / Centre for Automated Decision Making & Society / Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Computer Science, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Law, Member of Law as Protection Centre, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne
