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World leaders’ personal details leaked

PERSONAL details of every world leader attending the Brisbane G20 summit were accidentally leaked by Australia’s immigration department, and they were kept in the dark about it.

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Close my Facebook accounts? What?!

A CASE before European Court of Justice is calling for radical changes following Edward Snowden’s revelations of surveillance by the NSA.

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Attorney-General George Brandis in Senate Question Time in the Senate Chamber, Parliament House in Canberra.

Metadata laws pass Parliament

AUSTRALIANS will have two years of their metadata stored by phone providers after the government’s controversial data retention laws passed Parliament.

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull responds during Question Time in the House of Representatives, Federal Parliament, Canberra.

7 easy ways around metadata laws

THINK Malcolm Turnbull’s metadata laws are too tough? Don’t worry, the Communications Minister has helpfully listed at least seven ways you can get dodge them.

The founder and executive chairman of Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group, Jack Ma, holds a smartphone while he adresses his speech during the official opening of the CeBIT technology fair in Hanover, central Germany, on March 15, 2015. The CeBIt runs from March 16 till 20. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ

You could soon pay for stuff with selfies

SOON we may no longer need our wallets to pay for anything. A selfie might be all we need. At least that’s what Chinese internet tycoon Jack Ma is hoping will happen.

A preschooler watching violent cartoons on television. Note: The screen image is my own creation projected through the TV.

Kids committing sex crimes on the rise

BAD IMAGES are being blamed for a steep rise in the number of children sexually assaulting other children, experts say.

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Life of luxury

Why is there no law against this?

FOR MANY, it’s the ultimate betrayal, ruins reputations and causes untold harm. And Australian lawmakers are just letting it happen.

A sunburned Attorney-General George Brandis waits for US President Barack Obama to arrive at RAAF Base Amberley in Brisbane, Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014. World economic are in Brisbane to attend the G20 Leadership Summit on November 15-16. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

This could be really bad news for your privacy

EVERY call you make. Every email you send. They’ll be watching you. The government’s controversial data retention laws have passed the lower house. This is what it means.

Alastair MacGibbon, director of High-Tech Crime Centre in Canberra, 02 Jul 2003. (Pic: Michael Potter)

Don’t mess with this cyber-cop

AUSTRALIA has a new cyber-cop, who will be empowered to slap big social media companies with fines of up to $17,000 a day and go after internet trolls.

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Retinal scanning for Windows 10

Retinal scanning for Windows 10

IF you thought Apple’s TouchID was impressive then wait till you see what Windows 10 has in store.

Student's finger on trackpad of computer.

America knows you’re reading this

BIG Brother is watching whether you like it or not. And despite the majority of us being opposed to mass surveillance, there’s nothing we can do it about, a new poll reveals.

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 2013: (EXCLUSIVE ACCESS; PREMIUM RATES (3X) APPLY) Former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden poses for a photo during an interview in an undisclosed location in December 2013 in Moscow, Russia. Snowden who exposed extensive details of global electronic surveillance by the National Security Agency has been in Moscow since June 2012 after getting temporary asylum in order to evade prosecution by authorities in the U.S. (Photo by Barton Gellman/Getty Images)

Snowden: ‘That won’t stop terror attacks’

TERROR attacks like the Sydney siege and Charlie Hedbo won’t be stopped by metadata collection says Edward Snowden.

Aussie caught in huge internet drug bust

Aussie caught in huge internet drug bust

FORMER Brisbane resident Peter Nash has pleaded guilty in a New York court to drug and money laundering charges through the black market website Silk Road.

‘Freak’ encryption bug could put millions at risk

WATCH out. Software giant Microsoft has issued a security warning claiming million of people may be at risk of losing data.

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Catfish hell: Sinister world of online photo theft

Sinister world of online photo theft

WHEN Lara Kelly decided to blog her body transformation three years ago, she had no idea she would be unintentionally caught up in a number of online scams.

Malcolm Turnbull leaving after attending the Australian National Committee for UN WomenÕs and International Women's Day 2015 Parliamentary Breakfast at Parliament House in Canberra.

‘Everyone should be calm and Zen’

MALCOLM Turnbull has told MPs their phones were not hacked after activists bombarded them with texts, suggesting more secure apps for private exchanges.

Scott Morrison, Malcolm Turnbull and PM Tony Abbott in the House of Representatives Chamber after a on condolence motion on the Seige in Martin Place .

How an app could bring down Tony Abbott

IT’S been called Snapchat for grown ups and it could just be the hi-tech tool that will bring down the Prime Minister.

Health Problems

Synthetic Marijuana is a legal product

The deadly high killing our kids

DEADLY drugs are hitting our streets, and they just keep coming. Freely available, most are undetectable and authorities are struggling to keep up.

Attorney-General Senator George Brandis appearing at a Senate Estimates into Department of Affairs and Trade at Parliament House in Canberra.

Public’s revenge: Death by e-mail

AN AUSTRALIAN activist group has launched a campaign to give the country’s top attorney exactly what he wants. But he isn’t likely to be very happy about it.

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Google back down on porn ruling

GOOGLE has reversed proposed rules to remove sexually explicit content from its Blogger platform.

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Find out what your digital footprint means

MOST of us go about our daily lives blissfully unaware we are continually building an online portrait of ourselves. But, what exactly does this mean?

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Blogger cracks down on porn

BLOGS bordering porn are set to become a thing of the past following an update to Google’s new policies over sexually graphic material.

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Snowden: ‘I laughed at NPH’

Snowden: ‘I laughed at NPH’

EDWARD Snowden and the makers of Citizenfour took to Reddit this morning to answer questions on everything from data retention to NPH’s Oscar joke.

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Metadata ‘a honey pot for hackers’

A POLICE insider has come out to reveal what he really thinks about the proposed metadata laws and why we should all be worried.

Apple CarPlay in the dash of a VW Tiguan pic Rod Chester

Smart tech users should be seen, not heard

OPINION: We were shocked when we discovered our smart TVs might be eavesdropping on us. But there’s a simple way to ensure our sweet nothings don’t become public property.

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Google

Is our privacy officially dead?

THE recent hacks on explicit photos are a reminder of just how exposed we really are to predators of our privacy. Jesse Fink knows this first hand.

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Year 6 kids to obtain a ‘digital licence’

GRADE six students will have to learn how to deal with internet trolls, post safe photos online and much more under a new online safety education program.

Silhouette of businessman talking on telephone.

White-collar crims in data law win

THE war on terror threatens to undermine the fight against white-collar crooks, with a proposed law cutting off consumer and corporate cops’ access to phone records.

Drug Addiction

Inside the mind of an online drug dealer

HAVE you ever wondered what drives someone to sell drugs online? A convicted heroin dealer has come clean about his business during Silk Road trial.

British RAF Typhoon jet aircraft (bottom) intercepting a Russian Bear- H plane as it approaches British air space in the North Atlantic Ocean 17 Aug 2007. aeroplane

Russian bombers over UK

BRITAIN’S Royal Air Force has been scrambled to force Russian bomber jets away from the English Channel, disrupting civillian flights to the area.

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