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ChatGPT still not meeting European data accuracy standards
eSafety and foreign regulators to sync content bans and oversight schemes
Automic CIO scratches itch for weekly security improvements
Home Affairs' ICT modernisation needs backed by another review
UniSuper's Google cloud deletion traced to "blank parameter" in setup
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Home Affairs targets cyber security uplift with 'Project Eight'
Looks to raise maturity and protection levels.
Jan 19 2023 11:35AM
Home Affairs boss: Optus breach is not a model for policy debate
Unrepresentative of 'darker' threat types and risks.
Oct 13 2022 7:19AM
Banks, Visa at odds over GDPR-like rules for Australia
Both oppose data localisation.
Sep 7 2022 12:44PM
Australian immigration processing needs 'big dollars' IT fix
Investment is still 'some way' off.
Sep 3 2022 9:35AM
Home Affairs, ASIC, ACMA leave Global Switch data centre
Under $115m 'securing sovereign data' project.
Jul 19 2022 6:37AM
Digital passenger card integration incomplete when pulled
App in "hibernation" but work will continue.
Jul 13 2022 12:37PM
Australia scraps digital passenger cards for international arrivals
Minister concedes app "needs a lot more work".
Jul 4 2022 11:37AM
Border Force searched more than 40,000 devices in five years
Exclusive investigation: Between 2017 and 2021.
Jun 16 2022 12:00PM
Australia's ID systems 'deficient', unfit for online: review
Exclusive: Report urges greater use of biometrics, face verification.
May 19 2022 7:05AM
Gov pledges to mandate IoT cyber security standards
Backs away from mandatory labels.
May 13 2022 1:08PM
Accenture's $60m permissions capability platform gig excludes visas
Work order yet to eventuate.
Apr 21 2022 6:55AM
Gov looks to close data security 'gaps' with new action plan
After flurry of recent reforms.
Apr 6 2022 12:06PM
More cops to start using national real-time criminal intelligence system
"Late adopters" to come onboard before end of 2022.
Apr 5 2022 7:00AM
Global tech talent visa intake halved amid skills shortage
Budget 2022: Visa program slashed.
Mar 30 2022 7:00PM
NSW ICAC asks for decryption and disruption powers
Asks for end to 'patchwork' of legislation.
Mar 23 2022 12:15PM
Home Affairs downplays gov data 'gaps' in critical infrastructure regime
Existing protections to continue.
Mar 23 2022 6:56AM
NSW Police issues first coercive notice under encryption-busting powers
As assistance requests continue to grow.
Feb 16 2022 12:33PM
Border Force defends temporary phone seizures at checkpoints
And the ABF will probably do it again.
Feb 16 2022 8:09AM
Digital passenger declarations ready for border reopening
Platform launches this week, but arrivals cards remain some way off.
Feb 14 2022 2:14PM
Home Affairs says end-to-end encryption is detrimental to public safety
"Not striking the right balance between the benefits and the risks of harm".
Feb 2 2022 6:44AM
