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Govt mulls facial recognition bill reheat

As the government considers reviving the controversial facial recognition legislation needed to expand an identity matching scheme, Home Affairs has awarded a $37 million contract to Fujitsu to manage...

Digital ID could prevent Optus breach repeat: Home Affairs

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Biometrically anchored digital identities would go a long way to preventing a repeat of the massive irreversible loss of identity information experienced with the Optus data breach, the Department...

12 critical infrastructure cyber incidents in three months

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Critical infrastructure providers suffered 12 cyber incidents during the three-month grace period that preceded the beginning of a mandatory reporting scheme, new figures from the Home Affairs department reveal....

Cyber hub pilot extended as govt considers long-term future

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Efforts to centralise federal government networks through a handful of cyber hubs in Canberra’s biggest agencies will continue until the New Year, after the pilot program was extended. The...

Ransomware bill reintroduced by Coalition

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Shadow home affairs minister Karen Andrews has reintroduced the former government’s ransomware bill without significant alterations and criticised the Albanese government for a lack of action on cybersecurity reform....

Home Affairs revives facial recognition plan for airports

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
A plan to introduce facial recognition SmartGates in the arrivals halls of Australia’s international airports has been revived, but the federal government will now adopt a two-step system that...

Australian unis back GDPR style data reforms

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
“Deficiencies” in Commonwealth privacy laws are stopping European researchers from sharing data with Australian counterparts and may force local projects offshore, researchers have warned. Universities are calling for an...

Broad church: AIIA members divided over data localisation

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has struggled to reach consensus among its diverse membership base on data localisation, but has broadly agreed that onshore hosting does not guarantee...