The research group has found non-China registered accounts are subject to the same content surveillance as China-registered accounts and are used to build up the database WeChat for censorship. …read more Source:: Open Source S
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Zoom concedes custom encryption is substandard as Citizen Lab pokes holes in it
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•Company also claims it mistakenly ran calls from outside China through the Middle Kingdom. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Opposition grows as Brazil advances single citizen database plans
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•A new bill aims to reverse the president’s decision to centralize and share personal data across the public sector. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Brazilian government to create single citizen database
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•From data of birth to gait, data from millions of individuals will be shared “as widely as possible” across departments. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Brazilian citizen data under threat with sale of national tech firms
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•A manifesto released by the employees at one of the state-controlled firms to be privatized by the government raises concerns over the future of information belonging to millions of citizens. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Calls for legislative change to limit citizen vehicle data collection and use in Australia
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•The National Transport Commission has asked for a reform, requiring states and territories to agree to broad principles on limiting government collection, use, and disclosure of automated vehicle data. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Citizen Lab: WeChat’s real-time censorship system uses hash indexes to filter content
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•The filtering systems also censor content that are not critical of the Chinese government. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Victoria earmarks AU$53m for digital service delivery and citizen engagement
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•The state Budget is also prioritising ambulance radio upgrades, acute healthcare through initiatives such as a digital patient records system, and a handful of tech-related projects in schools. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Morrison launches Service Australia to make citizen service delivery ‘easy’
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•Mapped on Service NSW and headed by Stuart Robert. …read more Source:: Open Source S
Brisbane City Council teaches IBM Watson sarcasm to understand citizen sentiment
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•It took seven weeks for Big Blue’s AI to learn to speak ‘council’ and pick up the tone of social media posts. …read more Source:: Open Source S