It’s one of the most hostile hacker environments in the country –- the DefCon hacker conference held every year in the summer in Las Vegas. But despite the fact that attendees know they should take precautions to protect their data, federal agents at the conference got a scare on Friday when they were told they…
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Aussie ‘Big Brother’ hospital plan irks docs
The State Government has a secret plan to track the movement of staff around the new Royal Children’s Hospital using radio tags, which has outraged unions and raised fears of setting a precedent in employee surveillance. Doctors say the plan smacks of Big Brother, and they will refuse to wear the tags when the hospital…
Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears
Todd Lewan of the Associated Press has an article on the vulnerability of identity documents that have embedded RFID chips. […] Neville Pattinson, vice president for government affairs at Gemalto, Inc., a major supplier of microchipped cards, is no RFID basher. He’s a board member of the Smart Card Alliance, an RFID industry group, and…
NZ to plug privacy gaps in law
New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner, Marie Shroff, in a submission to the Law Commission, has supported closing gaps in the current legal framework around privacy. The Commissioner made a submission to the Law Commission’s Stage 3 issues paper “Invasion of Privacy: Penalties and Remedies”, which looks at changes needed to the criminal and civil law to…