Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label law. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Are you prepared for Australia's new privacy law?

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Today Australia's new Privacy law comes into force, affecting Australian Government agencies, businesses with a turnover of more than $...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Can foreign digital gatekeepers unduly influence democracy?

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One of the perils of the digital age, as traditional media goes digital or goes downhill and more and more people rely on the internet for...
Thursday, August 09, 2012

What the Facebook ruling from the Advertising Standards Board (that comments are ads) means for agencies

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There's been a lot of commentary this week in the media around the decision by the Australian Advertising Board (ASB) to rule that the...
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Friday, May 04, 2012

Is it theft if you personalise & retain an official social media account when you leave an organisation?

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One of the legal and ethical dilemmas organisations are beginning to struggle with is the ownership of social media accounts. When a staf...
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Who is watching the watchers? Civilian surveillance of government

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With the widespread availability of phones in cameras and tablet devices - in fact it is hard to buy one today that doesn't include a c...
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Friday, March 09, 2012

The challenge of using Freedom of Information for good

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I'm a big supporter of Freedom of Information (FOI) laws and the rights of citizens to access information from their government to bett...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Many national laws are increasingly irrelevant - how will governments adapt?

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Facebook decides whether photos of nursing mothers are allowed to be displayed in its site (including in Australia and other nations where...
Saturday, February 04, 2012

How easy is it really to source information from Australian governments?

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On behalf of a friend I've been looking into the contact information for Freedom of Information (FOI) requests across Australia's C...
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Monday, January 23, 2012

New Inside Story policy: provide your full name for publication or your comment won't be published

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I have had a great deal of respect for the  Australian Policy Online (APO), produced by the Australian National University and University ...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Cannot defame with a hyperlink - Canadian Supreme Court ruling

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In the spirit of actually being in Canada, I learnt last Thursday that in a groundbreaking case the Canadian Supreme Court has supported two...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Toughen up - we need online anonymity

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Rather than posting in my blog today, I am breaking one of the rules of blogging (always pull people back to your own blog) by pointing peop...
Monday, September 05, 2011

What impact will cyborgs have on government?

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"We are all cyborgs now" claims Amber Case in her January 2011 TED Director Talk (see her video below). The concept of humans ...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

European Union requires websites to make users 'opt-in' to website cookies

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The EU Government's 2009 Directive banning "unnecessary" cookies in websites (if the site doesn't ask users to accept the ...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Turning open government petitions into policies in Latvia, using online banking to authenticate citizens

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It can be difficult to get a perspective on the Government 2.0 activities in non-English speaking countries. However thanks to Francis Irv...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Advertising agencies, digital agencies, web developers & printers - you need to understand government's online requirements

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It has been an interesting experience working with advertising and digital agencies, web developers and printers while in government - parti...
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