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31 March, 2017
ON TUESDAY, THE House of Representatives voted to reverse regulations that would have stopped internet service providers from selling your web-browsing data without your explicit consent. It’s a disappointing setback for anyone who doesn’t want big telecoms profiting off of their personal data. So what to do? Try a Virtual Private Network. It won’t fix all your privacy problems, but a VPN’s a decent start.
29 March, 2017
The National Broadband Network has blamed Telstra for internet download speeds as low as 1/500th of what customers are paying for and claimed the telco giant has been selling super-fast plans in areas where those high speeds don’t exist. Tensions between the NBN Co, which is owned by the federal government, and internet retailers erupted yesterday after The Australian produced five case studies of Telstra customers reporting substandard internet speeds.
Labels:
Ethical,
ICT Capability,
research
28 March, 2017
"Don't teach your kids coding," says New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman. "Well – teach it if you want. But before you teach them coding, teach them digital civics: how to talk to one another on the internet, how to understand fact from fiction." The internet is a sewer "of untreated, unfiltered information," he told his audience of teachers and international education leaders at a conference in Dubai on the weekend, "and if we don't build the values filters so our children can interact in this environment, with real values ... we have a real problem."
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