A Commonwealth Parliamentary inquiry into the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) has today heard how Western Australia's economy is being compromised through the lack of fast, reliable internet connections the service was supposed to deliver. The Joint Standing Committee heard how many Western Australian households and businesses are experiencing
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The Australian government on Friday proposed a new cybersecurity law to force global technology companies such as Facebook and Google to help police by unscrambling encrypted messages sent by suspected extremists and other criminals. But some experts, as well as Facebook, warned that weakening end-to-end encryption services so that police could
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On Thursday, the Australian Federal Court ordered Internet service providers to block websites which infringe copyright. The court required five websites be blocked: Pirate Bay, Torrentz, isoHunt, Torrenthound, and SolarMovie. In the first case of site blocking under new Australian legislation, the court asked the companies to block access to these websites
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