by admin | Apr 17, 2020 | News & Analysis
Digital contract tracing using smartphone technology location data, holds the greatest chance for us to outpace the virus, but surrendering to surveillance requires a balance between safety and privacy. Human right groups, have demanded that any surveillance measures...
by admin | Apr 17, 2020 | News & Analysis
Former NSW RSL president Don Rowe has avoided jail and been fined $2,000 for fraud offences. Mr Rowe used the RSL’s credit card to pay for expenses which included more than $9,000 in family phone bills and a $343 Sydney hotel room for his daughter....
by admin | Apr 16, 2020 | News & Analysis
The warrant to search the house of reporter Annika Smethurst in June 2019 was recently overturned by the High Court and ruled invalid. The raid sought to identify sources of a report published by Smethurst in April 2018, alleging that the government was planning to...
by admin | Apr 16, 2020 | News & Analysis
Slater and Gordon is investigating a class action against Cigno Loans, a short term loan facilitator. It is alleged that Cigno Loans set up their corporate structure to evade the usual operation of the National Consumer Protection Act, and instead over charged fees...
by admin | Apr 16, 2020 | News & Analysis
Contact tracing is retracing the patient’s footsteps, zeroing in on who else might have been exposed and joining the dots on Australia’s outbreak. It is now becoming one of the most expansive webs of health data the nation has ever built. Article explains...
by admin | Apr 15, 2020 | News & Analysis
Australians will be asked to download a phone app called TraceTogether that will monitor their movements — but only with their express permission. It would plot who had spent 15 minutes or more in close proximity with a person who proves to be COVID-19 positive....
