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digital privacy

  • Australia’s Digital ID Comes Into Force
    Australia’s Digital ID Comes Into Force
    The Digital ID Act commenced in December.
    December 1, 2024BY Monica O’Shea
  • Senate Inquiry Backs Under-16s Social Media Ban Without Digital ID
    Senate Inquiry Backs Under-16s Social Media Ban Without Digital ID
    The lower house has passed the Bill, meaning it will now go to the Senate for a vote.
    November 26, 2024BY Monica O’Shea
  • Bunnings Found to Breach Customer Privacy With Widespread Use of Facial Recognition Tech
    Bunnings Found to Breach Customer Privacy With Widespread Use of Facial Recognition Tech
    Hundreds of thousands of customers of Bunnings, Australia's dominant hardware retailer, were scanned without their knowledge.
    November 18, 2024BY Rex Widerstrom
  • Top Australian Car Brands Storing Data, Voice, and Video Information
    Top Australian Car Brands Storing Data, Voice, and Video Information
    Seven out of 10 of Australia's most-sold car brands are storing driver data at various levels, with some ...
    October 8, 2024BY Crystal-Rose Jones
  • New Zealand’s Digital ID Authority Starts Work
    New Zealand’s Digital ID Authority Starts Work
    The Trust Framework Authority is New Zealand's regulator of accredited digital identity services. It accredits providers and polices ...
    July 3, 2024BY Rex Widerstrom
  • West Australians Offered Payout If They Sign up to Digital ID
    West Australians Offered Payout If They Sign up to Digital ID
    Parents can get $250 for each secondary student and $150 for each primary student and kindergartener—provided they sign ...
    March 20, 2024BY Rex Widerstrom
  • Push for National Digital ID in Australia Making ‘Progress’: Minister
    Push for National Digital ID in Australia Making ‘Progress’: Minister
    Legislation will be introduced 'end of this year' or 'early next year'
    October 29, 2023BY Monica O’Shea
  • Big Tech, Major Websites Are Caught Swiping Personal Data Without Consent
    Big Tech, Major Websites Are Caught Swiping Personal Data Without Consent
    Researchers from KU Leuven, Radboud University, and the University of Lausanne conducted a study that found tens of thousands ...
    May 14, 2022BY Bryan Jung
  • 7-Eleven Secretly Scanning Customer Faces Without Consent: Australian Data Authority
    7-Eleven Secretly Scanning Customer Faces Without Consent: Australian Data Authority
    Convenience store group 7-Eleven has been found collecting facial recognition data from customers without their consent, according to ...
    October 15, 2021BY Daniel Y. Teng
  • Another Australian State Launches Home Quarantine App With Facial Recognition, Geolocation Tech
    Another Australian State Launches Home Quarantine App With Facial Recognition, Geolocation Tech
    Victoria is the latest Australian state to launch a home quarantine trial using a facial recognition and geolocation ...
    September 29, 2021BY Rebecca Zhu
  • Australia Passes Sweeping Online Surveillance Bill Amid Privacy Concerns
    Australia Passes Sweeping Online Surveillance Bill Amid Privacy Concerns
    The Australian federal government last week passed a sweeping surveillance bill that would grant top law enforcement agencies ...
    September 1, 2021BY Isabel van Brugen
  • Google, Apple, and Microsoft Distribute Chinese Surveillance Technology
    Google, Apple, and Microsoft Distribute Chinese Surveillance Technology
    Commentary As I previously discussed, Google is actively distributing surveillance and data-mining technology developed by Baidu, a Chinese ...
    February 25, 2019BY Rex M. Lee
  • Smartphone App Users Are Data-Mined Even When Not Using the Apps
    Smartphone App Users Are Data-Mined Even When Not Using the Apps
    Commentary A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “Apple Bans App Used by Facebook in Escalating Privacy ...
    February 13, 2019BY Rex M. Lee
  • Do You Have a Right to Be Forgotten in a Digital World?
    Do You Have a Right to Be Forgotten in a Digital World?
    With digital privacy, it’s you against some of the biggest and most powerful companies in the world. Guess ...
    January 24, 2019BY James Gorrie
  • Apple’s CES Privacy Claim Is Misleading
    Apple’s CES Privacy Claim Is Misleading
    Commentary Apple is taking advantage of the fact that the general public does not understand the company’s surveillance ...
    January 11, 2019BY Rex M. Lee
  • Facebook and Google Congressional Hearings: Meaningless Resolve and Phony Apologies
    Facebook and Google Congressional Hearings: Meaningless Resolve and Phony Apologies
    Commentary In 2018, I was offered the opportunity to share important information regarding surveillance and data-mining business practices ...
    January 6, 2019BY Rex M. Lee
  • Google Distributes Surveillance Technology Developed by Chinese Company
    Google Distributes Surveillance Technology Developed by Chinese Company
    Commentary This article is part of a series on corporate surveillance, highlighting civil liberty, privacy, cybersecurity, safety, and ...
    December 19, 2018BY Rex M. Lee
  • Business Users of Smartphones May Be Breaking the Law
    Business Users of Smartphones May Be Breaking the Law
    Commentary This article is part of a series on corporate surveillance, highlighting civil liberty, privacy, cybersecurity, safety, and ...
    December 4, 2018BY Rex M. Lee
  • Smartphone Surveillance and Data-Mining: Who is Protecting Us?
    Smartphone Surveillance and Data-Mining: Who is Protecting Us?
    Commentary This article is part of a series on corporate surveillance highlighting civil liberty, privacy, cybersecurity, safety, and tech-product ...
    November 5, 2018BY Rex M. Lee
  • When Smartphone Terms of Use Become Cyber-Enslavement Agreements
    When Smartphone Terms of Use Become Cyber-Enslavement Agreements
    Commentary This article is part of a series on corporate surveillance highlighting civil liberty, privacy, cyber security, safety, and ...
    October 23, 2018BY Rex M. Lee
  • John McAfee on the Erosion of Privacy and Freedom
    John McAfee on the Erosion of Privacy and Freedom
    NEW YORK—John McAfee, who created the world's first antivirus computer program, VirusScan, in 1987, and became a news ...
    November 24, 2016BY Joshua Philipp
  • A City Thrives on Connectedness but Access All Hours Makes Privacy a Problem
    A City Thrives on Connectedness but Access All Hours Makes Privacy a Problem
    Cities are complex systems, some may even say messy systems.
    November 23, 2015BY Stephan Winter
  • Twitter Disables Network of Websites That Track Deleted Tweets From Politicians
    Twitter Disables Network of Websites That Track Deleted Tweets From Politicians
    Twitter has disabled a group of websites that archived deleted tweets from politicians and diplomats worldwide. The Open ...
    August 24, 2015BY Jonathan Zhou
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    NEW By Arthur Zhang
    124 Swiss Lawmakers Condemn Beijing’s Transnational Repression of Falun Gong
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    The New Cholesterol Pill Isn’t for Everyone. Here’s How to Tell.
  • Senate Panel Advances Bill to Make Hospitals Compete on Price
    2hr By Lawrence Wilson
    Senate Panel Advances Bill to Make Hospitals Compete on Price
  • House Adopts Budget Blueprint for $95 Billion Reconciliation Package
    3hr By Jackson Richman
    House Adopts Budget Blueprint for $95 Billion Reconciliation Package
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    US Signs Nuclear Cooperation Deal With Saudi Arabia
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    House Passes Defense Policy Bill That Attaches SAVE America Act
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    Allergy Medication Recalled Over Possible ‘Life-Threatening’ Risks
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