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Alphabet features self-driving garbage cans, apartment noise monitors in Toronto smart city project
NBN Co is skipping "thousands" of premises a month
New Zealand to get 10 Gbps fibre to premises in 2020
Negative interest rates threaten to choke bank IT systems
Twitter tightens bans on political ads and causes
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Senate pushes encryption fix for US CLOUD Act fracture
To ensure Australian access to US servers.
Oct 17 2019 6:10PM
Australia, US negotiate CLOUD Act data swap pact
Providers in either country to be subject to requests.
Oct 8 2019 12:55PM
Govt to pressure telcos to host call centres onshore
To resolve complaints faster.
Nov 15 2018 12:14PM
Europe tries to force cloud providers to give up offshore data
Within six hours in "urgent" cases.
Apr 18 2018 10:18AM
Australia queues to broker offshore data access deal with US
Welcomes recently-passed law.
Apr 9 2018 6:41AM
NSW govt flies in 31 457 workers for shared services
Counts staff within 70 percent onshore base.
Oct 13 2016 6:30AM
Canberra eyes NSW govt shared services offshoring
State govt experience to inform federal reforms.
Jan 13 2016 12:31PM
Australian govt in outsourcing, shared services overhaul
Major public service upheaval on the cards in 2016.
Dec 2 2015 11:40AM
NSW gets new cross-border data sharing rules
Parliament patches gaps in privacy laws.
Nov 23 2015 11:19AM
Microsoft warns of 'global free-for-all' if US can access Irish servers
Privacy battle plays out in court.
Sep 10 2015 6:49AM
Labor wants customer consent for offshore data storage
Jurisdictions could be banned from hosting Aussie data.
Jul 27 2015 10:17AM
SA govt stands firm against offshore data hosting
Kicks off statewide cloud panel.
Jan 30 2015 12:00PM
NSW ServiceFirst to outsource to Infosys, Unisys
Onshore/offshore split still to be nutted out.
Dec 17 2014 12:02PM
Corporate allies rally for Microsoft in overseas data fight
Back efforts to block US govt request for data in Ireland.
Dec 16 2014 10:50AM
Inside the early days of Singapore's first privacy regime
"Still a fair amount of work to do" in data hosting hotspot.
Nov 18 2014 6:06AM
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NSW to add offshore data rules into privacy legislation
Privacy Commissioner welcomes the news.
Oct 20 2014 6:30AM
Optus to outsource, offshore 75 jobs
Ongoing transformation efforts affect digital division.
Oct 3 2014 3:14PM
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Union hits out at proposed offshoring of ATO test & dev
Tax Office insists no financial data will be stored overseas.
Sep 12 2014 12:34PM
Hockey calls on Tax Office to target ‘Australia Tax’
To ensure location-based profits stay on shore.
Sep 4 2014 1:10PM
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Govt dumps controversial Labor offshore cloud policy
Complaints lead to removal of double ministerial sign-off.
Sep 3 2014 10:33AM
