All posts by Bruce Baer Arnold
Government’s privacy review has some strong recommendations – now we really need action
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus yesterday released a report with 30 proposals for updating Australia’s privacy regime. The proposals are practical, necessary and overdue. However, they are just proposals, which have been made several times in the past before disappearing…
I’ve given out my Medicare number. How worried should I be about the latest Optus data breach?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Medicare card numbers are the latest personal details to be exposed as part of the Optus data breach. Optus has confirmed this affects 14,900 valid Medicare numbers that have not expired, and a further 22,000 expired card numbers….