Not worried? You should be: The End Of Privacy? It Traces Back To The 1960s

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind." 

— Buddha

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The IRS Is Ignoring Rich Tax Dodgers and Going After the Poor VICE

Who's watching you from an unmarked van while youshop in London? Cops with facial recog tech

Great. Big Brother Watch claims tech had 100% fail rate since May

 

Writers Silenced by Surveillance: Self-Censorship in the Age of Big Data

“We asked Scottish writers how online surveillance has impacted on their work. The answers we got were shocking.”

One of McKinsey’s state-owned clients has even helped build China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea, a major point of military tension with the United States.

It turns out that McKinsey’s role in China is just one example of its extensive — and sometimes contentious — work around the world, according to an investigation by The New York Times that included interviews with 40 current and former McKinsey employees, as well as dozens of their clients.

How to disguise your personal web-surfing at work - Your CEO and His Lackeys stall everyone - it is Acceptable 

The End Of Privacy? It Traces Back To The 1960s

The privacy warriors of the 1960s would have been astounded by what the tech industry has become. They would be more amazed to realize that the policy choices they made back then — to demand data transparency rather than limit data collection, and to legislate the behavior of government but not private industry — enabled today’s tech giants to become as large and powerful as they are. – The New York Times 

Why the arrest of Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou has the world on edge

Delete All Your Apps The article lays bare what the privacy-conscious have suspected for years: The apps on your ... to guarantee privacy would be to have a dumb phone, an iPod Touch, or no phone at all Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not ... New York Times

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Dangerous overreach on encryption leaves 'backdoor' open for criminals

Australia’s encryption laws represent a dangerous overreach by the federal government and create more problems than they solve

 

The Hill: “The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, following a 14-month probe, released a scathing report Monday saying the consumer credit reporting agency aggressively collected data on millions of consumers and businesses while failing to take key steps to secure such information. The breach is estimated to have harmed 148 million consumers.

FCW.com: “Amid leadership ineffectiveness and turnover plus a strained relationship with labor unions, the federal government generally looks like a less enjoyable place to work than it did a year ago. That’s according to the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government ranking, jointly produced by Partnership for Public Service and Boston Consulting Group and derived from the Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey data. The overall 2018 governmentwide score clocked in at 62.2, a 0.6-point drop from the score the Partnership gave last year. By comparison, the 2018 private sector engagement score is 77.1. Further, this year, employee happiness at the majority of agencies declined, reversing a three-year trend in which most federal agencies improved over the previous year.

Hoax bitcoin bomb threats plague US, Australia, NZ and Canada

US law enforcement officials are investigating a wave of hoax emailed bomb threats demanding bitcoin payment in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.




Empowering our senior public servants with political skills
GEOFF GALLOP: Could political skills re-empower the public service to deliver on efficient, effective and ethical government, asks the former premier.

Porter’s Integrity Commission gets a lukewarm reception
BACKLASH: The Integrity Commission proposed yesterday is highly unlikely to become a reality, but serves as a marker of where the federal Coalition currently stands on integrity reform.

A loose approach to governance hampers Indigenous outcomes
COMMENT: Close scrutiny during Senate estimates has done little to improve the governance and ministerial oversight of one of the federal government’s key Indigenous agencies.

Building a pan-Australian approach to safety and infrastructure resilience
PUBLIC SAFETY: Public safety and critical infrastructure agencies should consider developing a pan-Australian data infrastructure, similar to our academic research community, to empower a suite of new digitally driven services, according to a recent expert seminar in Canberra. (Partner article)

Public sector leadership awards finalists announced
Medical cannabis and a World Heritage bid are among the policy areas represented among the finalists for this year’s IPAA Victoria Leadership in the Public Sector Awards.
Bringing intelligence to government decision-making
For government, being able to streamline or automate high frequency, low risk decisions is at a critical stage. Hear from industry experts at a recent seminar in Canberra hosted by The Mandarin and supported by SAS. (Partner article)

Webcast recording: Working with MOs
ON DEMAND: Citizen trust is at a low and expectations are at a high. So how do we best work with ministerial offices in a time of political volatility? Our panel of experts discussed the topic during a recent webcast. Watch it now

ACCC wins watchdog of the year, as others lick their wounds

Tax office suggests Labor bills were essential to BHP's $500m settlement