Tag: Data security
Concerns over TikTok feeding user data to Beijing are back – and there’s good evidence to support them
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When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said “knowledge is power”, he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous social media some 500 years later.
Yet social...
Australian hospitals are under constant cyber attack. The consequences could be deadly
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Last week, the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) issued warnings to Australian health-care providers that it had observed an increase in cyber incidents targeting...
The COVIDSafe app was just one contact tracing option. These alternatives guarantee more privacy
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Since its release on Sunday, experts and members of the public alike have raised privacy concerns with the federal government’s COVIDSafe mobile app.
The...