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Written by Chris Abood
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010 14:59 |
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What is the best way to hide a tree? The latest hare-brained scheme to be put forward by the Federal government is its proposed Data Retention Regime to be modelled on the European Union’s (EU) Data Retention Directive (PDF 85KB). The proposed directive will require companies providing Internet access to log all activity. That is the web sites you visit, the contents of your emails, your instant message and VoIP conversations, your posts and what you upload and download. This takes invasion of privacy to a whole new level. |
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Written by Chris Abood
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 14:30 |
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One of the great advantages of democracies is its ability to accommodate a plurality of ideas. From the many ideas, a consensus forms as to which will benefit the community the most. This has seen democracies flourish while those countries that only allow one idea to prevail, as common in dictatorships, flounder and stagnate. Web 2.0 technologies have the potential to move democracies away from a plurality of ideas to small communities that cater for only one. |
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Connect - share - collaborate - create (part 2) |
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Written by Chris Abood
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009 10:15 |
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Within the next ten years, information and jobs will find us instead of the other way around as a result of a sharing and collaborating world. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 April 2009 10:17 |
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Connect - share - collaborate - create (part 1) |
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Written by Chris Abood
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Wednesday, 22 April 2009 10:09 |
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The next ten years will be the sharing and collaborating years. The way we work, play and interact is changing rapidly along lines of connecting to others, sharing ourselves, collaborating with others and creating together. |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 April 2009 10:15 |
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Internet: don’t link, don’t leak |
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Written by Chris Abood
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009 14:20 |
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As predicted by many, the ultra top-secret blacklist of banned websites maintained by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)* has been leaked. If you link to one of the banned websites, you can be fined $11,000 per day that the link is in place. Although, how you would know that you are linking to a banned site that is contained on a secret list is anyone’s guess. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 March 2009 14:24 |
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Written by Chris Abood
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Tuesday, 17 February 2009 11:58 |
Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) is set to revolutionise inventory control. It is also set to unleash a whole new way of tracking your purchasing habits and movements. Whatever privacy concerns you have now are nothing compared to what is coming. Currently governments do not have any policy or legislation in place to deal with RFID and privacy. In fact, governments can become the biggest beneficiaries of this new technology. |
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 17 February 2009 12:00 |
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Would you like yours filtered? |
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Written by Chris Abood
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Monday, 21 April 2008 00:00 |
For the 100th time, filtering content at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level does not work.
The federal government is currently looking at making ISP’s provide a “clean feed” into your home. However, a clean feed is not 100 per cent clean, can prevent you from accessing legitimate sites and is easily circumvented. Providing a clean feed does not address the major problems: children who are groomed, harassed and bullied via email, social websites, chat rooms and mobile phones.
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