encryption
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Everything That Went Down At Malcolm Turnbull’s Encryption Law Announcement
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull joined Attorney General George Brandis and Australian Federal Police Commissioner Michael Phelan today to announce the Federal Government’s new laws that will will oblige both telcos and social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp to give Australian security agencies access to encrypted messages.
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When Is ‘Not A Backdoor’ Just A Backdoor? Australia’s Struggle With Encryption
The Australian government wants the ability to read messages kept secret by encryption in the name of aiding criminal investigations. But just how it proposes to do this is unclear.
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Google’s AI Plans Are A Privacy Nightmare
Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks we are now living in an “artificial intelligence-first world”. He’s probably right. Artificial intelligence is all the rage in Silicon Valley these days, as technology companies race to build the first killer app that utilises machine learning and image recognition. Today, Google announced an AI-powered assistant built into its new…