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• Government may have to compensate asylum seekers affected by data breach

  Asylum seekers affected by a government data breach may be liable for compensation.

• Immigration prepares for massive overhaul of visa processing

  The Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) has formally launched the expressions of interest (EOI) process for the first stage of its “once in a generation” overhaul of visa processing.

• Immigration department reveals string of data breaches

  The immigration department has revealed that over the last five years it has reported 18 data breaches to the Office of the Australian Information Commission.

• Immigration: ‘No date’ for Top Four cyber compliance

  ​The Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) has “no date” for when it will be compliant with the government’s mandatory ‘Top Four’ cyber security mitigation strategies.

• Spotlight on cyber security at ATO, DHS and Immigration

  The cyber resilience of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), Department of Human Services and Department of Immigration and Border Protection is set to be scrutinised as part of a joint committee inquiry.

• Government takes stock of IBM Watson's future role

  ​Trials now complete, the federal government agencies that were early adopters of IBM’s cognitive computing platform Watson are considering its future use.

• Optus wins $115m DIBP ICT services contract

  Optus Business will help integrate the infrastructure of merged department

• Labor senators back stricter biometric data storage rules

  Labor members of the Senate Standing Committees on Legal and Constitutional Affairs have called for changes to be made to a government bill that, if passed, will increase the powers of the immigration department to collect biometric identifiers.

• Immigration department looks to IBM's Watson for data analysis

  The Department of Immigration and Border Protection will employ IBM's Watson platform to analyse unstructured data.

• Immigration department 'failed to protect' asylum seekers' information: Privacy Commissioner

  The Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) breached the Privacy Act when it failed to “adequately protect” the personal information of approximately 9,250 asylum seekers, said Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim today.

• Series of errors led to Department of Immigration data breach: KPMG

  Unfamiliarity with some Microsoft Word functions and limited awareness of IT security risks may have led to the accidental publishing of almost 10,000 asylum seekers details on the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) website in February 2014, says a new KPMG report.