Spam email complaints soar by 622%
Bianca Hall Australians are becoming increasingly intolerant of unwanted spam, with complaints, queries and reports about unwanted online attention leaping by 622 per cent in the past year.
Mighty telescope begins scouring universe
Bianca Hall Scientists will be on the lookout for intelligent life in the outer regions of the universe when they embark on studies into the origin of life on Earth using the world's most powerful telescope...
ASIC seeks power to read your emails, texts
Bianca Hall and Lucy Battersby The Australian Securities and Investment Commission has called for sweeping powers so it can access phone call and internet data for its war on white-collar crime.
Police back push to keep telco data
Bianca Hall Federal Police would 'ideally' like public's telecommunications data held indefinitely.
Police want phone, web data kept indefinitely
Bianca Hall Australia's police commissioners want to help draft laws that would allow them to access the public's telecommunications data for up to two years.
Roxon switch signals online scrutiny for all
Dylan Welch, Ben Grubb, Bianca hall and Lucy Battersby THE Attorney-General, Nicola Roxon, appears to have swung her support behind a controversial plan to capture the online data of all Australians, despite six weeks ago saying ''the case had yet to be...
Roxon switch signals online scrutiny for all
Dylan Welch, Ben Grubb, Bianca Hall and Lucy Battersby Attorney-General Nicola Roxon appears to have swung her support behind a controversial plan to capture the online data of all Australians, despite six weeks ago saying ''the case had yet to be made''...
Roxon edges towards keeping online data for two years
Dylan Welch, Ben Grubb, Bianca Hall and Lucy Battersby Attorney-General appears to support plan to capture all online data of all Australians.
Security scheme worthy of 'police state'
Bianca Hall, Ben Grubb, Lucy Battersby Privacy Commissioner slams laws that would allow Australians' data to be stored for two years.
Internet data tracking proposal seen as 'a police state'
Bianca Hall, Ben Grubb, Lucy Battersby PROPOSED laws that would allow the web and telecommunications data of all Australians to be stored for two years have been dubbed ''characteristic of a police state''.
New law to control cyber data
Bianca Hall New laws will allow authorities to collect and monitor Australians' internet records, including their web-browsing history, social media activity and emails.
Drones used for flock and awe
Bianca Hall IT SOUNDS like something out of a science fiction movie: scores of drones, uncontrolled by remote human hands, swarming like crazed birds in defence of an invaded country.
Drone swarms no flight of fancy
Bianca Hall Lecturer studies how unmanned drones could be programmed to behave like flocks.
Vision of future: experts close to turning bionic eye dream into reality
Bianca Hall FIFTEEN years ago, the bid to create Australia's first bionic eye relied on university researchers pillaging old stereos for parts.
How much Klout you have is in the tweets
Bianca Hall THE opposition spokesman on communications, Malcolm Turnbull, said it's ''very flattering to be in such distinguished company''.
Google urges rejection of net regulation
Bianca Hall Internet giant urges federal government to dump report recommending cyberspace be regulated in a similar manner to TV.
All of a twitter as legal threat to blogger adds spice to the public battle
Bianca Hall A BLOGGER who characterised the prominent anti-pornography activist Melinda Tankard-Reist as a fundamentalist Christian has vowed not to apologise, despite being threatened with defamation.
