DTA CEO Gavin Slater departs
Gavin Slater will leave the government’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) at the end of the month after little more than 12 months in the role.
Gavin Slater will leave the government’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) at the end of the month after little more than 12 months in the role.
Close to 10,000 asylum seekers affected by a data breach of personal information four years ago by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection are invited to provide evidence of loss or damage to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC).
Teradata has taken home a $28.9 million data warehouse services deal from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
The federal government will spend $22.5 million over the next three years deploying facial recognition technology at Australia’s airports, eliminating the need for travelers to produce passports at gates.
Unisys and CSIRO’s Data61 are researching how data analytics could detect potential border security risks posed by passengers, visa applicants, cargo and parcels.
Trials now complete, the federal government agencies that were early adopters of IBM’s cognitive computing platform Watson are considering its future use.
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection will receive $99.2 million for a new system to boost its visa risk assessment capabilities.
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection will spend $115 million over the next three years on end-to-end telecommunications and managed IT services, following a new agreement with Optus.
The Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) breached the Privacy Act when it failed to “adequately protect” the personal information of approximately 9,250 asylum seekers, said Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim today.
Unfamiliarity with some Microsoft Word functions and limited awareness of IT security risks may have led to the accidental publishing of almost 10,000 asylum seekers details on the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP) website in February 2014, says a new KPMG report.