Labor's shadow communications minister Michelle Rowland claims the NBN Co takes an inordinately long time to answer questions raised during Senate hearings into the rollout of the national broadband network.

Any narrative about monopoly practices is deemed a threat by Google because it has just had to give in to the European Union on a big case, according to Barry Lynn, a former employee of the New America Foundation think-tank who lost his job recently after he criticised the search giant.

Facial recognition technology used by London's Met police at the Notting Hill Carnival for the second consecutive year was unable to tell the difference between a young woman and a balding man.

Employees must be told by companies if their corporate email accounts are being monitored, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.

Senior executives at companies with more than 500 employees in 11 countries appear to be somewhat casual in their approach to complying with requirements for the EU's General Data Protection Regulation that takes effect on 25 May next year.

Queensland’s largest public hospital and health service, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, has deployed the Nutanix enterprise cloud platform, helping it to reduce costs and develop new digital services.

Australian data centre operator Megaport has appointed former Twitter global network head Tim Hoffman as chief technology officer.

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