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Protecting privacy in an age of surveillance – 6 January 2021
Sacha Molitoritsz, academic in law, media and ethics at the University of Technology, Sydney and author of ‘Net Privacy” discusses how we can be free in an age of surveillance’
Former mortgage broker convicted of fraud – 5 January 2021
A former mortgage broker has been convicted of multiple counts of falsifying loan applications, after assisting clients in securing home loans using misleading information.
Australian former executive returns from French ‘castle’ to quarantine and a criminal investigation – 4 January 2021
David Savage had made his career and fortune with Leighton (now named CIMIC), becoming one of the firm’s most influential executives. Police suggest that Mr Savage helped conceal and alter company documents, that threatened to reveal Leighton’s corruption in dealings, to secure a nation-building infrastructure project in Iraq.
Coronavirus-related scams are on the rise, with the ACCC warning some scammers are pretending to be contact tracers – 31 December 2020
Contact tracers rely on QR code scan-in technology to locate and isolate potential contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases. Cybersecurity expert Kate Carruthers, says when it comes to commercial or privately owned QR applications, there is little regulation to prevent data from falling into the wrong hands.
