How one government is building a WhatsApp alternative to combat privacy concerns
French government building its own encrypted messenger service to ease fears that foreign entities could spy on private conversations between officials.
French government building its own encrypted messenger service to ease fears that foreign entities could spy on private conversations between officials.
Concern about Facebook’s respect for data privacy is widening to include the information it collects about non-users.
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg swapped his trademark T-shirt and jeans for a dark suit and a purple tie as he met U.S. lawmakers to apologise for the social network's misuse of its members' data and to head off possible regulation.
Australia’s privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into Facebook after it was revealed that information about more than 300,000 users of the social media network here may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica.
Facebook said on Wednesday that the personal information of up to 87 million users, mostly in the United States, may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, up from a previous news media estimate of more than 50 million.
The Senate has called on the government to back the use of strong encryption technologies and resist attempts to weaken them.
When Apple Inc begins hosting Chinese users' iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities will have far easier access to text messages, email and other data stored in the cloud.
Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) CEO Robert Fitzpatrick welcomes today’s rollout of the Australian Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) legislation which makes big changes to the Privacy Act.
Is your boss reading your emails? Are they keeping an eye on the websites you visit on your work mobile? Are they even allowed to do that?
As governments around the world re-evaluate their privacy regimes, an emerging issue for every CIO is changes to data privacy regulation. These changes are forcing CIOs to review their privacy practices and, in some cases, trigger complete overhauls of business processes.
IT chiefs gathered at Sydney's Rockpool restaurant to discuss how they are automating cyber security management tasks across their organisations. The luncheon was sponsored by Juniper and ICT Networks.
Business leaders are brimming with confidence about their ability to comply with the fast approaching General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Notifiable Data Breaches Act, but their self-assurance may be misplaced, suggests a survey.
The Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner has said businesses have a responsibility to make privacy more straightforward for individuals.
The employees of 43 per cent of top 100 brands have no idea whether their company has a data breach procedure, according to a Deloitte survey.
If the US green lights legislative proposals to empower ISPs to freely disseminate a consumer’s personal information- and even sell your web browsing history - it could potentially open doors to new markets and revenue streams, according to the head of the Internet Association of Australia (IAA).