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. […]
EFA’s 2017 Wish List
As the new year approaches, it’s again time to set out our Wish List and priorities for the year ahead. This list repeats many of the same topics as last year as there has been little movement on many of these issues, partly due to the election interrupting the legislative programme, but also, we’d suggest, […]
Managing Privacy in the Social Media Age
‘Privacy is dead!’ This seems to be what we are continually told these days. Whether it is completely dead is questionable of course. It has certain taken some strong body blows over the last few decades; some of these unexpected and some that were essentially self inflicted. The concept of privacy as we know it […]
Census 2016: what you need to know
We are not the ABS, and we can’t help you obtain a paper form or login details for the census. We know that a lot of people have been having trouble getting through to the ABS and/or haven’t received a form or their login details. According to the ABC, “[p]aper forms need to be […]
Election 2016 Scorecard
Recently, we released our Election 2016 scorecard. We were really pleased to see a lot of substantive and thoughtful replies from the smaller parties. As in 2013, Pirate Party Australia and the Australian Greens have scored full marks. For the first time this year, the Science Party and the Liberal Democrats have also scored full […]