Greens top digital rights election scorecard
The Australian Greens have received the highest rating in an assessment of digital rights policies by a privacy advocacy group.
The Australian Greens have received the highest rating in an assessment of digital rights policies by a privacy advocacy group.
Facebook has debuted an overhaul of its core social network, taking its first concrete steps to refashion itself into a private messaging and e-commerce company as it tries to move past scandals while tapping new revenue sources.
Facebook says it may have unintentionally uploaded email contacts of 1.5 million new users on the social media site since May 2016.
Facebook says user data contained in unsecured S3 buckets has been removed from AWS after a report from cybersecurity firm UpGuard pointed to millions of exposed records.
Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith paints a bleak picture of a future where facial recognition technology has been rolled out without restriction.
The government says it will legislate increase the penalties that can be levied under the Privacy Act to 10 per cent of a company’s turnover, $10 million or three times the value of a benefit obtained through the misuse of information, whichever is greater, up from a current cap of $2.1 million for serious or repeated breaches.
A collection of five principles will guide the sharing and release of data held by public sector agencies while a new legislative framework is developed.
U.S. federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook Inc struck with some of the world's largest technology companies, according to a New York Times report.
LandMark White's chief executive officer has left the property valuation firm after a decade and a half with the company, as LMW comes to terms with the impact of a significant data breach.
Facebook founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg says the future of social networking isn’t in “open platforms” but in private and secure intimate communications. The CEO said that increasingly people want to be able to connect in the “digital equivalent” of their living room.
Firefox browser-maker Mozilla is considering whether to block cybersecurity company DarkMatter from serving as one of its internet security gatekeepers after a Reuters report linked the United Arab Emirates-based firm to a cyber espionage program.
Oracle has used the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s inquiry into the impact of major digital platforms on the Australian media landscape to assail Google over its dominance of online advertising.
Google has said it had made an "error" in not disclosing that its Nest Secure home security system had a built-in microphone in its devices.
Facebook and other big tech companies should be subject to a compulsory code of ethics to tackle the spread of fake news, the abuse of users' data and the bullying of smaller firms, British lawmakers said on Monday.
Property valuation firm LandMark White says its decision to yesterday request the ASX pause trading of its shares came as it sought “clarity” around the impact of a data breach on its services.