EDITOR'S NOTE

Good morning,

The Attorney-General's Department was told to keep a mandatory data retention regime to a maximum of six months before it initiated public consultation proposing metadata retention for "up to two years", documents released under freedom of information reveal.

Also today, how a spate of big projects are drawing young people back to IT careers, and post-mortems of Melbourne IT's Twitter t.co error and an ASX database glitch.

-- Ry Crozier

MOST READ Twitter, PayPal reveal database performance NAB takes IT off its books Queensland schools to get NBN satellite US authorities bust Microsoft support scam Paypal architect warns against Big Data hype

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By James Hutchinson | October 10, 2012

Privacy impact assessment released.

By Juha Saarinen | October 10, 2012

Validity of mass court cases tested.

By Liz Tay | October 10, 2012

Westpac, Coca-Cola CIOs call for more skilled workers.

By James Hutchinson | October 10, 2012

Gaps remain in TCP code.

By Ry Crozier | October 09, 2012

Update: Fix to be applied this week.

By Ry Crozier | October 09, 2012

Phishing investigator puts domain on hold.

By Darren Pauli | October 10, 2012

Industry watchdog investigates potential vulnerability.

By Liz Tay | October 09, 2012

ICT strategy implementation on track, industry hears.

By Ry Crozier | October 10, 2012

Implementation to begin at the end of the year.

By Juha Saarinen | October 10, 2012

Fix issued.

By Ry Crozier | October 10, 2012

Kicks off US operations.

By Ry Crozier | October 09, 2012

Over 20,000 services jobs a year sent overseas.

By Staff Writer | October 10, 2012

Surface phone rumoured to drop after Christmas.

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