On World Press Freedom Day, we must deal with the threat data collection and surveillance poses to journalism.
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The Federal Court has narrowed the definition of what can be deemed “personal information” in any data stored about you.
The backlash against the Census suggests the Australian Bureau of Statistics didn’t do enough to convince Australians it needed to collect their private information or that it’d be kept safe.
As governments look to new ways to step up surveillance, hackers find new ways to subvert it. Is there a way to end this cat and mouse game, described as a crypto-war?
On Twitter’s 10th birthday, we look at how researchers have used the platform for a range of studies, from predicting the next flu outbreak to identifying the happiest city in America.
By simulating cities from the “bottom-up”, scientists can help us plan for the future.
The value and utility of the NSA’s metadata retention programs – which formed the template for Australia’s metadata regime – have too often been over-exaggerated.
ISPs were supposed to start collecting our metadata today, but most are not ready due to the complexities of the legislation. Perhaps it’s not too early for a review.
Four decades on, in a digital era of surveillance and data storage, Watergate remains a useful yardstick for assessing the value of source confidentiality.
If confidential sources can still be exposed by the government’s new data retention legislation, why risk leaking anything to the media?
Metadata is only the beginning. The Big Data trend means there’s a lot more information about us out there that can be tracked or monitored.
Avoiding the metadata retention laws and sending messages entirely privately is harder than it might seem.
The new legislation forcing telcos and internet companies to store your metadata for two years creates a new set of secuirty risks.
There are still unanswered questions about the data retention bill, but it’s now too late to get answers before it is passed into law.
The Abbott government’s efforts to amend its data retention bill amid concerns about journalists protecting their sources is still a worry. And others should be concerned too, including MP.
Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten are both desperate, for their separate reasons, to get the metadata legislation cleared away this parliamentary fortnight rather than have it hanging until the budget session…
As the Australian government pushes on with its data retention bill there are still questions about what safeguards and protections are in place, and a look at similar moves that have failed overseas.
The endorsement of Australia’s data retention bill raises questions about why the reforms are being pushed now, when they had been resisted by others for so long.
We should be wary of those who describe metadata as being both benign and powerful at the same time.
What the experts think of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security’s report on the proposed metadata retention laws.
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