The [New Zealand] Government’s making no apologies for revealing the welfare payments of two solo mums. Natasha Fuller, who is taking home $715 a week and Jennifer Johnston, who gets $554, have both have been complaining about their tertiary training allowances being axed. Social Development Minister Paula Bennett says they’ve chosen to go public with…
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Aussie net filtering trial deemed a success
Although not without controversy, the initial testing of the Australian government’s Internet filtering system has gone off with few problems according to reports from some of the participating ISPs. Five of the nine ISPs testing the government’s filtering system reported few problems during testing, even though only 15 customers participated at one and a couple…
Rights group blasts Interior Ministry’s biometric ID bill
The Knesset Science and Technology Committee is due to hold another discussion on Monday about the controversial Inclusion of Biometric Identifying Features in Identity Documents and a Data Bank bill. Committee chairman Meir Sheetrit hopes to approve the bill for second and third readings in time for the final approval by the Knesset plenum before…
I wouldn’t trust Google with my personal info
David Davis, Conservative MP for Haltemprice & Howden, has an op-ed in The Times that begins: When I read in the pages of this newspaper this month that the Conservative Party was planning to transfer people’s health data to Google, my heart sank. The policy described was so naive I could only hope that it…