Australians Speak Out on Privacy Concerns: OAIC Survey

EFA weighs in on the latest OAIC survey about Australians’ attitudes to and experiences of digital privacy.
Downside of fitness trackers and health apps is loss of privacy
At the touch of an app, Emma tracks her diabetes. She enters food, exercise, weight and blood sugar levels, then sets up medication reminders. Suzanne uses the latest wearable device to track her running route and distances walked. As she has not slept too well in the past month, she also records her sleep patterns. […]
Is someone really trying to find out if they can destroy the internet?
A prolonged Internet outage affecting major sites like Twitter, Netflix, Spotify and The New York Times on friday has commentators concerned that this is was a practice run for future, more widespread disruption of the internet. The distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) targeted the dynamic domain name service provider Dyn and came in three […]