The National Digital ID Will Fail Just Like the Others, Says Dataveillance Expert Dr Roger Clarke
Both major parties in Australia have been keen to establish national identity schemes going back decades. However, the public has consistently rejected them, especially once the privacy-minded inform the broader […]
Major Aussie passport change coming
In good news for those who love to travel, Australians will […]
Upcoming Budget to fund a new registry tracking scam texts as part of urgent crackdown to save billions lost to crime
The government will commit $10 million to establishing a register to track illegal messages after a report released last week showed the nation lost an estimated $3.1 billion to scam attacks in the past year.
The government will allocate $10 million in the upcoming Budget to establish a new […]
American Facebook Users Can Now Apply for Their Share of a $725 Million Facebook Settlement
Facebook users have until August 2023 to claim part of a $725 million class-action settlement of a lawsuit that claimed the company’s parent Meta violated their privacy, according to a new […]
Victorian councils targeted by conspiracy theorists’ campaign of disruption and influence
An anti-government […]
Toronto wants to kill the smart city forever
The city wants to get right what Google’s Sidewalk Labs got so wrong.
Gold Coast City IoT Network
NNNCo has rolled out a public Internet of Things (IoT) LoRaWAN network across the Gold Coast Local Government Area (LGA), in partnership with the City of Gold Coast. The Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) is leveraging globally-adopted open standard LoRaWAN technology. It enables diversified large-scale IoT applications and transforms how […]
Optus data breach class action launched for millions of Australians caught up in cyber attack
Just over six months since Optus reported a major hack, a class action is being lodged on behalf of customers who say their safety […]
Russians boasted that just 1% of fake social profiles are caught, leak shows
The estimate is contained in a document that is part of a trove of top-secret material leaked in a Discord chatroom
The Russian government has become far more successful at […]