“In the age of the internet, stories that once would have been wrapping the fish and chips and forgotten a few weeks or months or years later
are preserved forever,” says former High Court justice Michael Kirby in this speech for Privacy Victoria.
Internet privacy
PODCAST: Michael Kirby: Why privacy matters
Proposed intercept laws could create thousands of “Little Brothers”
Proposed amendments to the Telecommunications Act could dramatically increase the monitoring of your electronic communications. What will the loss of privacy mean?
Facebook fail: privacy alert on uploaded minutiae
A law suit unfolding in California about privacy and Facebook, has been described, and possibly kindly, as a “jumbled mess”, thanks to discrepancies in national privacy laws.
The end of privacy
It takes only 10 digits to label each human being on the planet uniquely, says scientist Ari Juels, and as our world becomes increasingly digitised and databased, we must accept that we’ll soon be wearing our names on our foreheads. Your mobile phone is probably already squealing on you.
eCrime: the bad guys pwn the internet
“Information is the money of the internet” and that’s exactly what cyber thieves are after. Online criminals are getting smarter and faster at stealing and authorities aren’t doing enough to stop it.
Facebook’s privacy problems
Facebook wants its users to share more of their information and content with the rest of the web in an effort to keep up with Twitter. Facebook users… don’t.
