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Westpac picks Oracle to underpin new tech foundation

By Allie Coyne

Exclusive: Customer service hub deal sewn up.

More than $70m on, legacy systems haven't budged from Qld

By Paris Cowan

Six years and no replacement.

CBA software review prompts bank to sell stake in Visa

By Allie Coyne

Speeds up writedown of software.

OAIC tells govt to fix its privacy before criminalising data re-identification

By Allie Coyne

Agencies need a privacy code.

Former Telstra COO to run NZ telco Chorus

By Juha Saarinen

Takes helm in February.

Vodafone to build infosec centre with DiData and FireEye

By Juha Saarinen

Inks five-year deal.

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HPE storage crash killed ATO online services

Photos: The tech that used to run the Commonwealth Bank

Dev like Netflix: Top tips from the world's savviest engineers

Microsoft Australia boss quits to join Suncorp

'Hardware issue' downs ATO digital services

 

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Justin Warren

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This legislation effectively gives Govt agencies impunity to publish information that can identify YOU.

 

jpwarren

Justin Warren

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But the legislation you're trying to pass does NOTHING to change the incentives for those releasing that information in the first place.

 

jpwarren

Justin Warren

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"-in many cases impossible-to fully retract that information or prevent further access." That's what we've been telling you, yes.

 

jpwarren

Justin Warren

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You have admitted, in YOUR OWN SUBMISSION that once the information is out there, the harm has been done and you can't fix it.

 

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These are the people who when they want our data say if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear https://t.co/n7GvaNAcN8

 

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Here's the background story on how Capgemini inadvertently leaked Michael Page's database backups to the public: https://t.co/TuQIVPeYL9

 
 
 
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