Powerful tool to scour document metadata updated
A Spanish company has released an upgraded version of a powerful software application that can be used to perform intelligence gathering on a company's Web site and network.
View ArticleBoeing backs metadata for information security
Metadata – 'data about data' such as the non-image-related information stored when people snap a photo on a digital camera – should be used to label corporate information according to one US security...
View ArticlePRISM revives data sovereignty arguments in Australia
Revelations about surveillance activities by the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US may fuel fears among Australian businesses about offshoring data, according to privacy advocates.
View ArticleAustralia suspected to have PRISM data: Ludlam
Greens senator Scott Ludlam believes the US National Security Agency (NSA) has handed information it has collected from its PRISM system to the Australian government.
View ArticlePrivacy International files complaint against Australian Signals Directorate
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has received a formal complaint from UK-based privacy group Privacy International following allegations that the ASD offered to share information about...
View ArticleASIO head says government is no Big Brother
ASIO is not carrying out mass surveillance of average citizens and the agency is subject to an appropriate level of oversight, according to the organisation's head David Taylor Irvine, director-general...
View ArticleContext needed in metadata and data retention debate
There are many worrying aspects of the current political debate in Australia on proposals relating to the retention of metadata.
View ArticleAFP apologises for privacy breach
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has issued an apology after it emerged that metadata related to criminal investigations was accidentally released online.
View ArticleVodafone asks how data retention applies to M2M
Vodafone seeks more clarity on how the data retention legislation introduced today will apply to machine-to-machine (M2M) data, among other questions.
View ArticleData retention laws 'can't be and they won't be' used against pirates: Brandis
Attorney-General George Brandis has said that the government's proposed data retention laws "can't be and they won't be" used to pursue Australians engaged in online copyright violation.
View ArticleMetadata regime to spur speculative invoicing, say Greens
The government’s metadata regime will open the door to more copyright prosecutions and speculative invoicing, rather than focusing on police investigations and terrorism, according to the Australian...
View ArticleEFA wants govt to reject companies seeking warrantless metadata access
Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) has called on the Attorney-General to reject requests from most of the 61 agencies seeking warrantless access to telecommunications metadata.
View ArticleGrubb decision goes the wrong way
Telstra's win in the metadata case identifies a potential hole in the Privacy Act.
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