Displaying items by tag: policy

GUEST OPINION: Australia’s AI month runs for four weeks from 15 November. This year, it provides an important opportunity for businesses to consider how they can responsibly integrate AI into their organisations to capitalise on its potential for efficiency and growth.

On September 27-28, 2023, DHS hosted the first Western Hemisphere Cyber Conference, which convened foreign government cyber leaders to discuss cybersecurity challenges and identify areas of collaboration.

Yesterday, Twitter was against using its platform to link to other social media platforms. Today that policy has been obliterated, and Twitter now says it will poll user opinion before making policy changes.

A lobby group for the science and technology sectors has urged political parties to pledge a sizeable boost in research and development funding to spur an economic recovery led by the STEM sectors.

GUEST OPINION by Adam Gordon, ANZ Country Manager, Varonis: The rise of cyber-attacks on Australia’s healthcare sector highlights just how important it is for organisations to have tight control over their data – this means knowing exactly who has access to what, and which data presents the highest risk if it were to be exposed.

Remote support software specialist LogMeIn is claiming that it contributed to avoiding as much as 63 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions through its customers’ use of GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar during the first year of the pandemic - between April 2020 and March 2021 - compared to daily commuting and business travel for company meetings.

New Zealand’s competition enforcement agency, The Commerce Commission, has issued a revised cartel leniency and immunity policy and revised template leniency agreement.

Apple has responded to concerns raised by its shareholders over the company’s role in enabling the government of China’s cyber-surveillance and censorship, by adopting a new human rights policy, according to activist group SumOfUs and a coalition of investors and human rights groups.

The Federal Government has announced enhancements to the way telecommunications services are delivered in new developments, which it says are designed to provide people moving into new apartment and housing developments with better and cheaper access to high speed broadband services.

GUEST OPINION by Linden Dawson, Customer Success Management Lead, Ping Identity: Amid all the issues and challenges being faced as we battle through the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most overlooked is privacy protection.

GUEST OPINION by Linden Dawson, Customer Success Management Lead, Ping Identity: Amid all the issues and challenges being faced as we battle through the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most overlooked is privacy protection.

The Australian Government has set out its policy objectives for the allocation of two spectrum bands as part of its program to support the delivery of “world class” telecommunications services nationally.

The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has strengthened its presence in Canberra with the appointment of 20-year government relations veteran Simon Bush as general manager of policy & advocacy.

A report released today by a panel of prominent Australian academics has called for a national strategy on the future implementation of artificial intelligence for Australia.

The South Australian Government is set to launch a new online accessibility policy, and online toolkit, to assist all organisations in the state to create more accessible, digital platforms.

During the past two weeks, a clear message has been sent to the Australian Government from all sectors of the national community. The people of Australia want the government to take their unacceptable authoritarian anti-encryption bill and cremate it.

Global analytics software firm SAS claims it is helping governments improve policy making and security analysis.

New Zealand’s largest telco Spark says it is on track to start providing 5G services to consumers and businesses from 2020, following the success of trials of the technology.

Global assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services company EY has partnered with fintech industry peak body FinTech Australia to launch their third annual census aimed at tracking the growth and the progress of Australia’s fintech ecosystem.

Cognisant of the fact its employees are, by nature, built to change, CA Technologies has enhanced its family friendly benefits giving "all employees worldwide, male and female, a minimum of 12 weeks paid leave during the first 12 months following the birth or adoption of their child".