David Ramli reports: The Minister representing the Attorney-General in the Senate, Senator Penny Wong, has claimed any data retained by the Government will not include the content of communications. The denial comes after industry criticism of the Government’s proposal to record the Web browsing details of every Internet user in Australia, in line with similar…
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In: New law to protect individual privacy
Sahil Makkar and Surabhi Agarwal, with Manish Ranjan, report: Amid growing concerns over the potential misuse of personal data, the government is moving to enact India’s first law to safeguard privacy, a move aimed at least partly at deflecting worries over the immense amount of data it proposes to collect about its citizens. The United…
UK: Government delays scrapping of ContactPoint
Phil Muncaster reports: The coalition government has decided not to shelve the controversial ContactPoint database immediately, saying instead that its operations will be scaled down gradually. ContactPoint was designed to improve child protection by increasing the amount of information shared between government departments. It holds information on all children under the age of 18. However,…
Singapore: NUS apologises for gaffe
Kimberly Spykerman reports: Fresh graduate Tang Shangjun was puzzled to find an embossed credit card, and a PIN number, in his mailbox from Standard Chartered Bank slightly over a week ago. As he had not applied for any credit cards, he called the bank and was perplexed to find that the card was a tie-up…