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The Australian Privacy Commissioner has handed down its judgement on Google’s Street View WiFi data capturing, concluding the company’s collection of personal information “would have breached the Privacy Act”.

The Electronic Frontiers Association (EFA) and Australia Privacy Foundation (APF) have jointly questioned potential security breaches conducted by search giant. Google's Street View program.

Industry groups are cautious about the e-health funding announced by the Federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan, in the [[Artnid:346207|2010/2011 budget|Budget 2010-11: What's in it for ICT?]], with worries the funding may not be enough and detail is too scant for a proper implementation.

Google has gone on the offensive in its battle against Internet censorship, launching a tool which it says will achieve greater transparency on its dealings with Governments and will lead to less Internet censorship.

Readers will be familiar with the explosive global growth in data theft and data leakage incidents. But they may be less familiar with the corresponding increase in multi-million-dollar law suits flowing from such incidents, as those who are burned in the fall-out from security breaches seek compensation from the courts to cover their losses.

Google Buzz has come under heavy criticism from the Australian Privacy Foundation, which believes the new social networking tool has major privacy flaws.

At the three-day Asia Pacific Digital Innovation Summit (APDIS) in December, an annual trade event which brought together 780 delegates from 21 countries, Computerworld caught up with AIIA chairman John Grant and CEO Ian Birks for a rare joint interview. The pair spoke candidly about the challenges the Australian ICT industry faces this coming decade and the importance of accelerating NBN progress.

Australian residents can look forward to a visit from one of Google’s snap-happy vehicles, as the search giant has recently announced an update to its Street View offering.

The protection of the individual is the primary function of personal health care data and the tail of health administration and research must not be permitted to wag the dog of personal health care, according to an Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) policy position document.

With the leaking of the supposed Australian Communication & Media Authority's (ACMA) URL “blacklist”, further doubts have been raised over whether such a list, and even Web Filtering itself, can successfully achieve the federal government's goal of protecting Australians from undesirable content like child pornography.

earthwave secures over 720 McDonald’s stores with Clean Pipes services

It will be easier for law enforcement to install wiretaps in public telephones, cafe computers and mobile phones under proposed amendments to the Telecommunications (Interception) Act (TIA) discussed in a Senate hearing last week.

While universities don't tend to shout as loudly about their latest tech innovations as do Google, Cisco and other big vendors, their results are no less impressive in what they could mean for faster, more secure and more useful networking. Here's a roundup, in no particular order, of some of the most amazing and colorful projects in the works.

Sweeping reforms will make it easier than ever for law enforcement to intercept communications if amendments to the Telecommunications (Interceptions) Act are agreed upon by a Senate standing committee.

More than a year after the federal government first proposed legislation allowing law enforcement to monitor mobile phones, e-mail, SMS and voicemail messages without a warrant, the amendments have finally reached the Senate with fiery debate expected to follow its introduction into the Upper House of parliament.

A new prison currently being built in Canberra is planning to trial an RFID tracking program for its inmate population, despite growing concerns it will infringe on inmates' civil rights.

Federal privacy commissioner, Karen Curtis, has called for tougher standards in Australia to force organizations to notify customers of a security breach that exposes customer information.

The NSW Department of Health and the Swift financial transaction network have both received gongs at the 2006 Australian Big Brother Awards, dubbed "The Orwells".

The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) has demanded the national Access Card be canned because it is unjustified, unprecedented, unpopular, unsafe, wasteful and discriminatory.

A formal complaint has been lodged with the federal privacy commissioner to determine whether Australia's banking industry is breaching local privacy laws by using the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (Swift) network.

IBM's plans to acquire Internet Security Systems (ISS) is creating customer concern. More than 40 public servants have been sacked for accessing customer records. But does snooping on employees really work? We also look at stress levels in IT depts and claims mobile phones are becoming a "pipeline for perversion."

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has officially launched its online census collection application, dubbed eCensus, which could integrate with the proposed Department of Human Services' Access Card at the next census in 2011.

WF Montague Cold Storage will use RFID-enabled wristbands to monitor the productivity of workers in a newly built preparation area.

Australian VoIP service providers must keep interception channels open for law enforcement following a legislative review which IT Minister Helen Coonan has endorsed.

When they're under pressure from Australian government agencies, don't think your Internet Service Provider (ISP) will protect your privacy.

Details surrounding costing for the federal government's access card initiative remain elusive, but last week's Senate Estimates hearings has revealed that consultancy fees will certainly top $2 million.

Smartcard providers are gearing up for massive rollouts in the next two years in the wake of a federal government review into the introduction of a national identity card.

CIOs and IT managers should be aware IT projects fail due to myriad factors and technology may not be the answer to a problem, according to Australian Privacy Foundation chair Anna Johnston.