We are entering the information age, where economies are built on the back of digital infrastructure. This ensures the full spectrum of ICT related policy, from Gov2.0 to growing ICT exports is more important than ever. We need to make sure our capacity to innovate and collaborate with ICT is harnessed to strengthen our exports. [...]
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National Records & Information Officers’ Forum 2010
This morning I presented at the National Records and Information Officers’ Forum 2010 in Melbourne. The Forum also had speakers from a range of private and public organisations covering innovations in digital record-keeping, standards and future directions. My presentation traversed a range of issues including the importance closing the digital divide through the national braodband [...]
Electronic Information in the Commonwealth
Report of the Inquiry into the Management and Integrity of Electronic Information in the Commonwealth Link to full report Senator LUNDY (Australian Capital Territory) (10.27 a.m.)-On behalf of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, I present the 399th report of the committee entitled Inquiry into the Management and Integrity of Electronic Information in [...]
Email Privacy
Balancing Employer Liability and Employees Rights: Legally Monitoring Internet Communications Panel Discussion hosted by Clearswift Old Parliament House, Canberra 25 February 2003. Security in partnership with Privacy Recent technological advances have dramatically changed the working environment. Today we are here to discuss how the information revolution intersects with the office atmosphere. There are two main [...]
Internet Regulation in Australia – an Opposition perspective
Internet Regulation in Australia – an Opposition perspective Netalert Conference Canberra Convention Centre 4 December 2002 I believe that we are privileged to have been alive at the birth of a technological innovation that will transform society – the internet. The real measure of the internet’s importance lies in the fact that it goes to [...]
Privacy Commissioner to formally investigate allegations of Government spam
The investigation by the Federal Privacy Commissioner into a Government web site accused of spamming its users is to be welcomed, the Shadow Minister for Information Technology, Senator Kate Lundy said today. Deputy Federal Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, said last night: “We are aware of allegations that a federal government web site, designed for young [...]
Privacy @ CFP
Privacy and Data Protection: Developments in Australia With the Acxiom/Packer joint venture in data-warehousing serving as a powerful catalyst for raising public awareness about privacy, the Coalition Government was finally forced to act. On November 30, the Attorney General stated ‘Reports of a data warehouse of personal and financial information being developed by Acxiom highlight [...]
Latest security breach shows Coalition clueless about digital privacy
Confirmation today that private GST-related ABN data has been hacked into demonstrates that the Coalition is clueless about protecting on-line information, the Shadow Minister for Information, Senator Kate Lundy, said today. Taxpayers Australia Inc, today claimed that details forwarded to obtain Australian Business Numbers (ABN) and GST registration details were the subject of ‘hacking’. Despite [...]
Government confirms ‘give away’ of private data
In Senate Question Time today, the Coalition Government admitted that the Australian Taxation Office ‘gave away’ private data to information agency Dun and Bradstreet. The Assistant Treasurer and the Minister for Communication and Information Technology confirmed that up to 10,000 records supplied by taxpayers registering for an ABN (Australian Business Number) has been passed on [...]
$50 m Australian Business Number (ABN) database up for grabs
“At estimates hearings on Tuesday it was revealed that the Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business (DEWRSB) intends to sell compulsorily acquired taxpayer information contained in the new ABN database, the Australian Business Register,” Senator Lundy said today. The committee was told the Government intends to sell individual taxpayer records for $20 per [...]
