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By Justin Hendry on May 14, 2021 9:51AM But intelligence committee gives in principle support. A parliamentary inquiry has recommended additional safeguards be embedded in a bill that paves the way for a landmark reciprocal data access regime between Australian and US authorities. The bipartisan Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) handed down its report [pdf] this week, recommending that the International Production Orders Bill pass with 23 changes. The bill will to establish a new framework under the  Telecommunicatio...

This week’s interim report from the committee didn’t get much attention. It was soundly buried by the moral force of the Brittany Higgins story and the bully-bro tantrum in Silicon Valley that the Morrison government grabbed like a political life raft. But it supplies a number of proof points for the accountability aversion thesis. Here’s one example. Since May last year, the committee has been attempting to extract legal advice provided to the attorney general’s department on the interaction between the legislation underpinning the Covidsafe app (remember that old thing?) and US legi...

The French government's decision to have Microsoft host the country's Health Data Hub is causing outrage in the French and European digital ecosystem, it is also worrying data protection advocates. EURACTIV France reports.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The old saying goes, personnel is policy. This may be particularly true at this point in federal cybersecurity policy, where multiple agencies and Congressional committees play changing roles, including expanding capacities in the National Security Council, an entirely new White House Office created by Congress, and the still-young Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Each announcement (and round of speculation), leaves observers wondering what it may mean for fed...

BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images The move could put UK users out of reach of Europe's privacy laws. But Facebook said there will be no change to the privacy controls or the services it offers UK customers. Currently, UK users are governed by agreements with Facebook’s Irish headquarters, but this legal relationship will change following the UK's exit from the European Union (EU). “Facebook has had to make changes to respond to Brexit and will be transferring legal responsibilities and obligations for UK users from Facebook Ireland to Facebook Inc," the social media giant t...