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Australian Government considers making company directors personally liable for cyber attacks
Anthony Galloway, Anthony Galloway, 13 July 2021Company directors could be held personally responsible for cyber-attacks under new standards being discussed with industry as government research shows cybercrime is costing the Australian economy about $3.5 billion a year. The cyber-security standards, to be co-designed with industry, will cover corporate governance, smart devices, and the...
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cybersecurity
Studying social media can give us insight into human behaviour. It can also give us nonsense
Jason Burton, Nicole Cruz & Ulrike Hahn,, UNSW Newsroom, 13 July 2021Since the early days of social media, there has been excitement about how data traces left behind by users can be utilised for the study of human behaviour. However, researchers often analyse this data with tools that were not designed to manage large, noisy, observational sets of data found on social media. Researchers have also found that...
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France fines Google 500 million Euros over copyright row
Reuters, 13 July 2021France's antitrust watchdog has handed down a 500 million Euro fine to Google for failing to comply with the regulator's orders on how to conduct talks with the country's news publishers in a row over copyright. The fine comes amid increasing international pressure on online platforms such as Google and Facebook to share more revenue with news...
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corporate responsibility
YouTube rolls out Shorts globally after achieving more than 6.5 billion daily views
Shawn Lim, The Drum, 13 July 2021YouTube's short-form video format, Shorts, has launched globally. The video function is available in more than 100 countries and has surpassed 6.5 billion daily views worldwide. Shorts allows users to upload...
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The five-day office week is dead, long live the hybrid model, says productivity boss
Emma Koehn & Jessica Irvine, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 July 2021The era of working five days per week in the office looks to be all but over in Australia, with the nation’s biggest employers saying hybrid work models will be entrenched even after the danger of the coronavirus pandemic has passed. Forty-two of the fifty largest Australian companies surveyed by The Sydney Morning Herald confirmed permanent...
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A non-proliferation treaty for fossil fuels
Future Tense Podcast, ABC, 11 July 2021In this episode of the Future Tense podcast, a panel of experts discuss whether it is time to attack the “supply side” of fossil fuels, whether a non-proliferation treaty like the ones used for nuclear weapons would work, and how CEOs can…
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Indigenous start-ups talk country, culture, and health
Download This Show, ABC, 08 July 2021In this episode of Download This Show, Marc Fennell talks to a NAIDOC week panel who explain how their start-ups are harnessing the power of technology to help users connect with their country, culture, and improve health outcomes...
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Australia and New Zealand are signing up for an international tax on the tech giants - but will it be enough?
Victoria Plekhanova, The Conversation, 08 July 2021Australia, New Zealand, and many other countries are losing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year by not adequately taxing the profits of digital giants doing business in their jurisdictions. In response, 131 countries, including Australia and New Zealand, have agreed in principle to a tax scheme negotiated under the auspices of...
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Australian Government enlists business brains trust to boost vaccination
Shuba Khrishnan & Essam Al-Ghalib, SBS, 07 July 2021Australia's biggest businesses could offer incentives to increase uptake of COVID-19 vaccines, with the owner of Bunnings and Officeworks also putting its sites forward to host mass vaccine hubs in future. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and health officials met with corporate leaders from Coles, Wesfarmers, Commonwealth Bank, Telstra, Virgin, and...
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Google, Facebook, and other tech companies threaten to quit Hong Kong over privacy law
Helen Davidson, The Guardian, 06 July 2021Tech giants including Google, Facebook, and Twitter could stop offering services to Hong Kong if the city moves forward with laws to impose penalties on users who publicly release identifying information about individual or organisations, an Asian industry group has warned. The Asia Internet Coalition, which counts the aforementioned tech...
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