Gold Coast Hospital employee wakes up ‘paralysed’ after Pfizer vaccine
An Aussie hospital employee who suffered a severe reaction to his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine is accusing Queensland Health of discrimination.
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Woolworths Under Fire for Introducing Customer Surveillance Cameras
Supermarket giant Woolworths has come under fire for introducing technology to surveil self-service checkouts, filming shoppers as they scan and pay for items.
More than 100 stores across three states have been trialing the software over the past […]
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02, 2023
When Can Police and other Law Enforcement Agencies Access Your Private Data?
Private browsing mode, also known as incognito mode, is a way to surf the web without your activity being recorded in your browsing history.
However, private browsing isn’t as “private” as you may think it is. Here’s why.
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02, 2023
NSW Police Searches Target the Vulnerable, Report Confirms
The NSW Police Force has a predilection for searching members of the public, so much so that a recently released report has found that officers are annually conducting more than 150,000 personal searches: those that involve a body, or pat down, search but […]
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02, 2023
Corruption Pervades Police Forces in Australia and the United Kingdom
It has been said that ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’, and perhaps the organisations which best establish the truth of this maxim are police forces and services, wherever they may be.
This article seeks to set out how the corrupt […]
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02, 2023
Britain being forced to go cashless ‘against its will’
One in five would struggle in a cashless world and prefer notes and coins
Britain is becoming a cashless society against the public’s will, a major new study has found, after the pandemic accelerated the switch to card and digital payments.
Around 10 million people, or one […]
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02, 2023
Gov examines ‘fair and reasonable test’ for personal info handling
As well as privacy law exceptions for research.
A ‘fair and reasonable test’ for handling personal information and research data use rules are new proposals the government wants feedback on before […]
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02, 2023
Oz Gov to close long-running telco metadata loophole
Accepts most findings of a 2020 report.
The government will finally close a loophole in Australia’s metadata retention laws that enabled over 100 agencies, from councils to the RSPCA and environmental authorities, to access […]
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02, 2023
UK: Consultation on draft legislation to support identity verification
Ministerial Foreword by Alex Burghart MP, Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office
This Government has made a commitment to improve the way that data and information is shared […]
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02, 2023
DOJ to Federal Court: We Should Be Sued — Not Moderna — for Patent Infringement
The U.S. government — and not COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna — should face a patent infringement lawsuit currently pending against the company, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers told the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in documents […]