Powerful tool to scour document metadata updated
A Spanish company has released an upgraded version of a powerful software application that can be used to perform intelligence gathering on a company's Web site and network.
View ArticleStorage industry tackles making sense of metadata
Here is a wager I bet I will win. How many of us took a photo, saved a video, or downloaded a music track and have no clue where it's hiding today? Maybe it's buried somewhere on your PC's hard drive...
View ArticleBoeing backs metadata for information security
Metadata – 'data about data' such as the non-image-related information stored when people snap a photo on a digital camera – should be used to label corporate information according to one US security...
View ArticleAFP accessed phone records without warrant
Australian Federal Police (AFP) accessed more than 40,000 phone and computer records last year without a warrant.
View ArticlePRISM revives data sovereignty arguments in Australia
Revelations about surveillance activities by the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US may fuel fears among Australian businesses about offshoring data, according to privacy advocates.
View ArticleAustralia suspected to have PRISM data: Ludlam
Greens senator Scott Ludlam believes the US National Security Agency (NSA) has handed information it has collected from its PRISM system to the Australian government.
View ArticlePrivacy International files complaint against Australian Signals Directorate
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) has received a formal complaint from UK-based privacy group Privacy International following allegations that the ASD offered to share information about...
View ArticleWhat the police can get from mobile phone tower data
Metadata is in the news again with revelations that police in Australia. have been getting access to data collected from mobile base stations (cell towers).
View ArticleASIO head says government is no Big Brother
ASIO is not carrying out mass surveillance of average citizens and the agency is subject to an appropriate level of oversight, according to the organisation's head David Taylor Irvine, director-general...
View ArticleAFP apologises for privacy breach
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has issued an apology after it emerged that metadata related to criminal investigations was accidentally released online.
View ArticleVodafone asks how data retention applies to M2M
Vodafone seeks more clarity on how the data retention legislation introduced today will apply to machine-to-machine (M2M) data, among other questions.
View ArticleData retention laws 'can't be and they won't be' used against pirates: Brandis
Attorney-General George Brandis has said that the government's proposed data retention laws "can't be and they won't be" used to pursue Australians engaged in online copyright violation.
View ArticleBrandis wrong on copyright and data retention: IP expert
Attorney-General George Brandis appears to have erred in his claim that the government's proposed data retention regime couldn't be used to pursue people who engage in online copyright violations,...
View ArticleData retention: Govt needs to spell out metadata details, committee says
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has called for the government to spell out in legislation what sort of metadata will be collected under its data retention regime.
View ArticleData retention: Industry uncertainty dismissed as 'hearsay'
The parliamentary committee overseeing data retention legislation has requested more evidence that companies are unclear as to whether they will be forced to keep customer data under the government's...
View ArticleTelstra to allow customers to access their own metadata
Australia's largest telco will allow its customers to access the 'metadata' they generate. Telstra said this morning that its customers will get the same access to their personal data that law...
View ArticleVodafone looks at how to give customers their metadata
Vodafone has indicated it is looking at the feasibility of giving customers the ability to access the kind of metadata that telcos will be forced to keep under the government's data retention regime.
View ArticleGreens seek amendments as Senate opens metadata debate
The Australian Greens proposed several amendments to the data retention bill that they said address privacy and security gaps in the legislation.
View ArticleData retention: Telstra to keep customer data within Australia
Telstra will store data that it is forced to retain under the government's new data retention regime within Australia, the telco has revealed.
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