Macquarie Technology Group International has been ordered to pay up after failing to comply with an order to compensate an employee who had been unfairly dismissed. …read more Source:: oss watch
Month: August 2018
Google: To be clear, this is how we track you even with Location History turned off
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•Google has now clarified what turning off the Location History setting really means. …read more Source:: oss watch
Australia appoints information and privacy commissioner
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•Interim Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk has been appointed to the role for the next three years, the attorney-general has announced. …read more Source:: oss watch
Australia passes ‘revenge porn’ legislation
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•The non-consensual sharing of intimate images online will now be punishable by criminal penalties of up to seven years in prison and civil penalties of up to AU$525,000 for corporations …read more Source:: oss watch
Optus ends ‘unlimited’ ads court case with Telstra
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•Optus has said the legal judgment in May ‘vindicated’ its decision to take Telstra to court over its ‘unlimited’ ad campaign. …read more Source:: oss watch
Labor pushes amendments to ‘highly regrettable’ NBN subsidy scheme
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•The AU$7-a-month levy to subsidise the satellite and fixed-wireless networks is ‘immaterial’ to the challenges facing NBN’s business case, according to Labor, with amendments needing to be made to the …read more Source:: oss watch
No backdoors for Australian encryption, just a riddling of ratholes
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•Draft legislation intended to give cops and spooks access to encrypted communications should keep encryption strong. But the powers it proposes aren’t just about fighting paedophiles, terrorists, and organised criminals. …read more Source:: oss watch
Movie and TV piracy drops across Australia again
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•Online piracy in Australia decreased for the fourth year in a row, according to a survey by the federal government, which said this is ‘probably’ due to the greater availability …read more Source:: oss watch
New York City caps ride-sharing licences for a year
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•New York City has voted in favour of a series of measures to combat the rapidly rising numbers of for-hire vehicles in the city, aimed at reducing traffic congestion and …read more Source:: oss watch
A proactive flavor of DevOps, grown at Google
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•For reliable applications, the web giant relies on ‘site reliability engineering’: DevOps with en engineering twist. …read more Source:: it-priorities