National affairs
30 July 2021
A case that began in the Irish courts is shaping Australia’s efforts to update its 1980s privacy laws
National affairs
23 April 2020
How we build these apps is how we’re building our digital future
Books & arts
19 June 2019
Why trust and privacy are not the same thing
National affairs
24 July 2018
How My Health Record went viral for all the wrong reasons
Books & arts
4 July 2018
Books | Badly designed technologies can trap users and thwart their understanding, argues lawyer–scientist Woodrow Hartzog. Good design can do the opposite
International
24 April 2018
Facebook’s chief executive made a surprise admission to Congress earlier this month. Yet we’re in danger of letting him off the hook
Essays & reportage
2 December 2015
Why have watershed data retention laws failed to excite more opposition? Three factors might help explain our acquiescence, writes Gavin J.D. Smith
International
1 September 2015
Data breaches are creating a new breed of online scammer, write Ramon Lobato and Julian Thomas
Correspondents
25 August 2013
Four hundred million people have downloaded WeChat, a quarter of them outside China. And the figures are growing daily, reports James Leibold
Books & arts
29 July 2011
Australians are likely to get a statutory right of privacy. Though it needs careful crafting, it’s high time