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Govt has another go at criminalising data re-identification

The federal government will again attempt to pass legislation criminalising the illegitimate re-identification of public sector data sets, despite its attempt to do this five years ago stalling due...

Australia’s international vaccine certificates welcomed by digital security experts

18 October 2021 | by Denham Sadler

Cryptography and security experts have welcomed the federal government’s new international digital Covid-19 vaccine certificate, saying it should be used across the country instead of other, less privacy protecting...

Digital vaccine certificates ‘woefully insecure’

13 October 2021 | by Denham Sadler

Victoria’s COVID-19 digital vaccine certificates are “woefully insecure” and “very easy” to forge in just minutes, according to a number of developers and cryptography experts who have criticised the...

Australia’s vaccination certificate approach ‘sad news for privacy’

27 September 2021 | by Denham Sadler

There is “no rational reason” for the way Australian governments are currently planning to roll out digital COVID-19 vaccination certificates, which is less secure and more damaging to privacy...

Technology lessons of COVIDSafe must be learned

17 August 2021 | by Dr Lesley Seebeck

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...

ABC quietly delays iview login plans, data sharing

2 July 2021 | by Joseph Brookes

The ABC has delayed the introduction of mandatory logins for its video streaming platform iview, amid concerns the requirement was unlawful and a risk to user privacy through the...

Experts urge ABC to reverse ‘risky’ log-in requirement

31 May 2021 | by Joseph Brookes

Privacy and technology experts have written to ABC management, urging them to reconsider the decision to require iview users to log in to use the video streaming service, saying...

Data61 drops world-class seL4 security team

21 May 2021 | by Joseph Brookes

The world-leading Australian research team that developed the extremely hard to hack seL4 microkernel has been disbanded by the CSIRO, with staff to be moved to AI projects or...

DTA’s spruiking of Digital ID is unhelpful

15 February 2021 | by Denham Sadler

The federal government’s digital identity program should be “abandoned and redesigned from scratch” according to researchers who last year discovered a significant flaw in the system’s design. The Digital...

Online voting: do it open source or not at all

13 November 2020 | by Liam Tung

With the 2020 US presidential election over and the result all but declared – and with the COVID-19 pandemic raging on across the world – online voting seems like...

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Govt has another go at criminalising data re-identification

Australia’s international vaccine certificates welcomed by digital security experts

Digital vaccine certificates ‘woefully insecure’

Australia’s vaccination certificate approach ‘sad news for privacy’

Technology lessons of COVIDSafe must be learned

ABC quietly delays iview login plans, data sharing

Experts urge ABC to reverse ‘risky’ log-in requirement

Data61 drops world-class seL4 security team

DTA’s spruiking of Digital ID is unhelpful

Online voting: do it open source or not at all

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