A popular American iPhone application, available through Apple’s Australian iTunes store, was falsely listing American sex offenders as living in Sydney suburbs for at least four months More

Last night, on the Radio National program Australia Talks, Senator Stephen Conroy told listeners that “the Internet is just a communication and distribution platform like any other form of communication and distribution platform”. He’s wrong, for a few reasons. More

Is a Government Watchdog the right thing to polcie what happens on the net? Will it keep bad stuff off Facebook? Or will any oversight in the wrong hands become a draconian regime of over-regulation. More

The Government wants a mandatory internet filter to reduce the risk of children seeing really bad stuff online. So how often do kids really stumble across online porn? Here’s a quick-fire snap-shot from around the world. More

Don’t worry about the mandatory filter. You can get around it. Smarty-pants tech blogs love pointing this out. But it’s not that simple. More