Google has announced a mammoth fibre optic cable to run from Kenya, through the spine of Africa and across the Indian Ocean to Australia. Google announced the roughly 13,000km subsea cable late on Thursday. “Diversifying Australia’s connectivity and supporting digital inclusion across the globe are both incredibly important objectives, andContinue Reading
Australia’s communications and media watchdog has launched legal action against Optus over the 2022 data breach, in the latest blow for Australia’s second biggest telco. The Australian Communications and Media Authority has filed proceedings in the Federal Court, alleging Optus “failed to protect the confidentiality of its customers’ personal informationContinue Reading
Social media giants have been ordered to take down violent footage and threatened with multi-million-dollar fines as leaders grapple with a surge in misinformation and harmful content online. Leaders have issued stern warnings to social media platforms who they said have aided in the rapid circulation of false information andContinue Reading
The government has been accused of playing Big Brother with a new proposal that’s been blasted as an “attack on free speech and democracy” from a top think tank. In an attempt to battle “misinformation”, the government is now flirting with the idea of giving the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)Continue Reading
The government is eyeing SMS scammers and has introduced a new scheme stripping them of one important weapon they use to target Aussie victims. Source linkContinue Reading
Australians struggling to pay their phone and internet bills have been thrown a lifeline, with new rules to make it mandatory for telcos to do more to provide financial hardship assistance. An Australian Communications and Media Authority report from last year found 2.4 million Australian adults had experienced financial difficultyContinue Reading
Telstra has been fined $300,000 for failing to provide accurate details of thousands of customers to a database that is critical to the emergency warning system. The database, known as the Integrated Public Number Database (IPND), is used by triple-0 to help locate people in an emergency, to warn AustraliansContinue Reading
The millions of Australians and thousands of businesses left without phone and internet service during the crippling Optus outage are being asked to make submissions to a government-led review aimed at better safeguarding the country in case of future incidents. About 10 million people, and 400,000 businesses, were impacted duringContinue Reading
Daniel Principe is waging a war against online pornography, which he says has warped the minds of young boys and made sexual violence seem normal and healthy. The celebrated youth educator and advocate works in schools across Australia trying to hold back the tide against a $150 billion global pornographyContinue Reading
Australia’s lucrative $3bn subscription video on demand market is confronting a new headwind from cost-conscious young Australians, with four in 10 Gen Zs cancelling a streaming service in the past three months. National Australia Bank, which surveyed 2000 Australians to assess consumer sentiment, said younger Australians were now saving upContinue Reading