Encrypted messaging app Session has shifted its operations from Australia to Switzerland and adopted a foundation model, blaming the move on the country’s “draconian” regulatory environment. As law enforcement...
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Search engines and social media giants would be expected to filter, blur and block online pornography and other age-inappropriate content by default for children under the latest set of...
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A Labor-led parliamentary committee has urged the federal government to appoint a Digital Affairs minister to coordinate the regulation of social media and other digital platforms, including across privacy,...
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Australian data centre capacity is expected to double by 2030, attracting more than $26 billion in new investment in the process, according to a report that also calls for...
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Digital platform giants claim they would become the “sole arbiters of truth online” if the Albanese government’s misinformation laws pass but are facing strong push back from lawmakers for...
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The national aged care watchdog has tapped Pegasystems for a new case management platform in anticipation of its expanded oversight of providers from 2025, awarding the US supplier more...
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NSW digital minister Jihad Dib says the state’s new digital strategy is grounded in the belief that online government services must be built for the whole of society, not...
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X has lost its case to invalidate a $610,500 penalty issued by the eSafety Commissioner for inadequately reporting on efforts to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse material last year....
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My Health Record will abandon its outdated PDF format in favour of a new open-source health data sharing standard under a “foundational” project slated to cost upwards of $45...
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Almost one in three doctors aren’t using a national patient record database despite more than a decade and $2 billion of development, leading to fresh calls this week for...
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Misinformation reports produced by digital platform providers like Meta, Google and TikTok are plagued with data integrity issues for the fourth year running, according to the regulator that could soon...
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NSW teachers will gain statewide access to a purpose-built generative artificial intelligence app after the tool was found to free up as much as an hour per week during...
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New laws banning children under a certain age from social media platforms will be introduced in Australia, with age verification technology to be trialed as a way of limiting...
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers, in a recent address to the John Curtin Research Centre, articulated a compelling vision for Australia’s transition into the “fourth economy”, a future where technology, and...