Collaborate Disseminate
Data governance was often pushed aside as Australian organisations rushed to capitalise on big data and AI in 2023. This year, there will be a renewed focus on the ethics of data collection and use. Continue reading Data Governance to Be a Renewed Focus in IT for Australian Organisations in 2024
Add pharmacies to the list of industries that are giving private data to the police without a warrant.
Continue reading Pharmacies Giving Patient Records to Police without Warrants
Wow:
To test PIGEON’s performance, I gave it five personal photos from a trip I took across America years ago, none of which have been published online. Some photos were snapped in cities, but a few were taken in places nowhere near roads or other easily recognizable landmarks.
That didn’t seem to matter much.
It guessed a campsite in Yellowstone to within around 35 miles of the actual location. The program placed another photo, taken on a street in San Francisco, to within a few city blocks.
Not every photo was an easy match: The program mistakenly linked one photo taken on the front range of Wyoming to a spot along the front range of Colorado, more than a hundred miles away. And it guessed that a picture of the Snake River Canyon in Idaho was of the Kawarau Gorge in New Zealand (in fairness, the two landscapes look remarkably similar)…
Continue reading AI Is Scarily Good at Guessing the Location of Random Photos
Know your customer rules are a first step to address the risks of sensitive data — including on U.S. military servicemembers — sold online.
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The Australian federal government aims to deliver changes to privacy laws in 2024. Organisations are being warned to prepare ahead of time by creating a comprehensive map of organisational data. Continue reading What Australian IT Leaders Need to Focus on Ahead of Privacy Act Reforms
Several federal agencies are playing catch-up on meeting recommendations from NIST detailed in a 2018 framework for how government should incorporate privacy into their risk management strategies.
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More than two hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin said there is nothing certain but death and taxes. If Franklin were alive today, he would add one more certainty to his list: your digital profile. Between the data compiled and stored by employers, private businesses, government agencies and social media sites, the personal information of nearly […]
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The European Commission approved a similar data transfer agreement with the United States in July.
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Australian retailers are rolling out mass surveillance solutions to combat shoplifting, but a poor regulatory environment could mean high risks associated with data security and privacy. Continue reading Retailers Are Rapidly Scaling Surveillance of Australian Consumers — Why This Is a Red Flag
A hearing to review FTC Chair Lina Khan’s leadership turned into a debate over the commission’s role overseeing Twitter’s privacy practices.
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