It would be nice to live in a world with fewer impositions on privacy, one in which law enforcement did not use small quadcopters and…

Nine’s 60 Minutes program recently aired surveillance footage appearing to show Victorian minister Adem Somyurek, an upper house MP in the Andrews government and a…

The new Enterprise Biometric Identification Services system launched on Wednesday would improve Home Affairs' ability to identify criminals and 'persons of national security interest' via…

The Australian privacy commissioner will investigate whether a facial recognition app utilised by 600 American police departments is being used by police in Australia. Facial…

Australian advocacy group Digital Rights Watch is calling out local councils over the "surveillance technology, data collection and privacy invasion" that is on the rise…

The Victorian government is uploading data from driver licenses to the federal government’s National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution but will only allow it to…

Intelligence agencies must verify the lawfulness of stored communications before handing them to investigators, according to the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman. In its most…

Local governments have enthusiastically boarded the public CCTV bandwagon in recent years, snapping up federal and state grants to set up security cameras in towns…

The Australian government is already a big customer of spyware, despite there being little transparency about how the industry works.

The ATO is finding itself the subject of a lot of unwanted media commentary of late, most recently around its completely legitimate use of high-grade…

As governments hand ever-stronger powers of intrusion and electronic eavesdropping to law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, the immunities and protections of parliamentary privilege, enshrined in the…

FEATURE: When myths drive policy, whose job it is to set the record straight? New research looks at use of public CCTV as an…