“This is a very tough environment, the internet is a very disruptive technology,” Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy told reporters in Canberra today. Asked if the online push by newspapers globally was the right strategy, Mr Conroy said it was one business model. “Around the world … there are a …
After a six-month investigation, the Australian Federal Police has determined Google may have breached telecommunications interception laws when it hoovered up reams of personal information from home Wi-Fi networks. However, it has decided not to pursue the matter further due to the difficulty of gathering evidence and its determination that …
Melbourne teenager Steve Slayo often sat glued to his bedroom computer into the early morning hours, stewing over federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s plans to filter the internet. Slayo wrote a protest letter to Mr Conroy that he never posted, but the bright VCE student later flexed his considerable computer …
Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy says he will wield federal law as a weapon to force people on to the national broadband network (NBN) if the states and territories don’t make connections mandatory. Some consumers are opposed to the NBN because they fear the costs of their phone lines and …