Sunday, August 10, 2014

IT News Head Lines (AustralianIT) 8/11/2014

AustralianIT.com.au



Race to sell need for data trawl
THE Abbott Government is scrambling to put its data retention plans back on track.

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Untangling the metadata mystery
Questions remain over how much the data retention scheme will cost.

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ASIO rules out ‘mass invasion of privacy’
PROPOSED data retention laws won’t target ordinary citizens but only those planning terrorism and major crimes, says a top spy chief.

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Concerns over PCEHR survey privacy quelled
A GOVERNMENT e-health survey on SurveyMonkey doesn’t breach privacy principles despite concerns raised by privacy experts.

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Spy-proof emails in sight
COULD encrypted messaging — long the province of privacy hawks and conspiracy theorists — go mainstream? Yahoo and Google think so.

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Google to widen encryption use
GOOGLE is wielding its power to push more websites into protecting the people using their services.

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Making a mess of metadata
GEORGE Brandis has made the task of selling tough new security laws that much harder.

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Metadata ‘essential’ for war on terror
LABOR’s former national security adviser says the collection of so-called metadata is essential to put a stop to “those plotting to hurt us”.

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Walk of genius: the fold-up robot
IT starts out lying flat, like a sheet of paper. Then it springs up and folds into moveable parts much like origami. And then it crawls away.

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Seoul profit tax at heart of stimulus
SOUTH Korea, in a bid to get companies to spend more, has introduced a profits tax.

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