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Privacy

July 2024

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    Microsoft’s climbdown over its creepy Recall feature shows its AI strategy is far from intelligent

    John Naughton
    The tech company’s new Windows machines can take constant screenshots of users’ every action – quelle surprise, it’s a privacy minefield

June 2024

  • Fatima Payman

    Australia news live
    Fatima Payman admits she ‘upset a few colleagues’ by crossing the floor – as it happened

  • A WA man has been arrested

    WA man set up fake free wifi at Australian airports and on flights to steal people’s data, police allege

  • Close-up photograph of Meredith Whittaker's face, taken outdoors with a streetscape in the background

    Observer business profile
    ‘Encryption is deeply threatening to power’: Meredith Whittaker of messaging app Signal

  • Woman using laptop

    ‘Alarm bells should be going off’ as mental health counselling app expands into Australia, critics say

  • How Apple plans to usher in ‘new privacy standards’ with its long-awaited AI

  • Australian Border Force searched phones of 10,000 travellers in past two years, data shows

  • New York passes laws protecting kids from addictive social media content

  • Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history

May 2024

  • Babies in hospital nursery

    ‘I would prefer to know’: Kerri has up to 600 siblings. They may finally learn the truth of their origins

  • A schoolboy looks at an iPhone screen

    Should Australia ban children under 16 from social media – and how would it actually work?

  • The Online Safety Act will reshape the internet for kids in the UK.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: The new law that could protect UK children online – as long as it works

  • Australian Border Force badge on an officer’s uniform

    Australian man says border force made him hand over phone passcode by threatening to keep device indefinitely

  • Google releases new tool to enable Australians to find their personal information and request removal

  • Third-party providers a customer data ‘weak spot’, Australian privacy commissioner says

  • Police arrest Sydney man for blackmail over major data breach affecting up to 1 million NSW and ACT residents

  • Qantas passengers’ personal details exposed as airline app logs users into wrong account

April 2024

  • Phone with social media apps on it

    We must target the root cause of misinformation. We cannot fact check our way out of this

    Samantha Floreani and Lizzie O'Shea
    One of the best tools we have to clean up this mess is already in our hands
  • Alice Cooper and guitarists

    Australian arts in focus
    ‘Absolute joke’: customers’ personal data exposed amid Pandemonium Rocks festival refund stoush

    Information commissioner investigating data breach as ticket holders demand refunds because of amended lineup
  • Privacy is not 'absolute': Asio boss calls for tech companies to work with police – video

    Mike Burgess used a speech at the National Press Club to urge tech companies to work with Asio to resolve challenges around end-to-end encryption
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