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A New Inquiry Will Put the Negative Impacts of Social Media Under the Microscope
Big Tech will be under the microscope again with a new inquiry expected to scrutinise what goes down on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
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Say Cheese! The EU Is Set To Create One Of Earth’s Biggest Biometric Databases
The European Parliament has voted by a significant margin to streamline its systems for managing everything from travel to border security by amassing an enormous information database that will include biometric data and facial images—an issue that has raised significant alarm among privacy advocates.
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Australia’s Least-Seen Car: The Governor-General’s Rolls-Royce
Australia’s newest Governor-General is General the Honourable Sir Peter John Cosgrove AK MC, sworn in a few minutes ago in a ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra. As part of his initiation, Cosgrove travelled from Parliament to the Governor-General’s residence in Yarralumla in an especially rare car.
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Husic Accuses Apple Of ‘Misleading’ IT Pricing Inquiry
Ed Husic has been left scratching his head overnight. He compared the notes of Apple’s testimony to a Congressional Inquiry to the notes he took when Apple testified before the Australian IT Pricing inquiry, and found that the two didn’t quite match up.