Immediate former head of the Australian Medical Association appointed to steer national eHealth project.
Tag: privacy
Privacy watchdog finds Australians worried over social media protections
By Julian Bajkowski The federal government’s privacy and data watchdog has delivered the biggest stocktake of community attitudes to privacy issues in five years, revealing people are more worried about…
Public trust of privacy protections in government slipping
By Julian Bajkowski Public trust in how well the government handles the privacy of personal information that it holds has slipped over the last five years, according to new research…
NSW agencies covered by new cloud policy
By Julian Bajkowski The New South Wales government has added to a downpour of public sector cloud computing policy announcements in the past week, revealing the state’s departments and agencies…
New challenge to council CCTV use
By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski A fresh row over how councils can use video surveillance and CCTV in New South Wales has erupted after moves by Local Government Minister…
Healthcare location trackers keep tabs on young and old
By Julian Bajkowski Healthcare providers in the public and private sectors are increasingly looking to fit controversial tracking devices to people as well as equipment in an effort to improve…
Adelaide locks up bike riders
By Julian Bajkowski The South Australian government has extended the utility of its public transport smartcard to give bike-riding commuters in Adelaide access to new locked cages so they can…
Opening up the QLD government
The Right to Information Act 2009 and the Information Privacy Act 2009 (“the legislation”) commenced on 1 July 2009. Now that two years have passed, people are asking, “Are we…