Australia’s federal and state privacy commissioners have released guidance for developing tools that protect public health and enable increased mobility as Australia embarks on a pathway out of COVID-19....
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Insurance Australia Group will use satellites and the Internet of Things to monitor its customers’ business and agricultural assets under a new partnership with Adelaide space startup Myriota. The...
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Australian governments are forecast to spend more than $6.4 billion dollars next year on IT services like consultants, managed services and cloud infrastructure, as part of a near double-digit...
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Victoria’s Stonnington City Council is the latest Australian organisation to fall prey to a cyber incident, forcing systems offline and some staff to take annual leave while the issue...
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The likes of Apple and Google could be further regulated as the federal government embarks on an overhaul of the Australian payments regulatory framework. It comes after the Treasurer received...
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The opening of a new cloud computing hub in Melbourne is a milestone in the digital transformation of Victoria, according to the state’s Treasurer Tim Pallas. Singapore-based managed services provider...
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Businesses large and small across a broad swathe of the Australian economy will be affected by new legislation which sets out to protect critical infrastructure and their supply chains,...
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Home Affairs is leading the development of a data security “Action Plan” to provide more clarity to governments and industry on the Commonwealth’s approach to data sovereignty and security,...
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Three more vendors have received the highest certification required to hold sensitive government data, joining the three which have been certified since the scheme came in to force in...
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Online retailers offer no genuine competition on privacy to Australian consumers, allowing them to conduct “pervasive” and “unnecessary” data collection, a leading privacy expert has told the competition and...
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OPINION: As the government turns its thinking to a vaccination passport or similar, it would do well to learn some of the lessons from COVIDSafe. COVIDSafe illustrates the need...
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The Data and Digital Ministers’ Meeting on Friday has agreed to the first ever national program of work on data sharing between jurisdictions and outlined the initial priority areas...
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Following the surge in online orders created by the pandemic, bricks-and-mortar retailers are working to create true omnichannel shopping experiences for consumers that span their online and in-store experiences....
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The 2021 Census has been hailed as a giant leap for digital accessibility in Australia, following years of design work and testing by experts and advocates, who say the...