Australian businesses are not keeping up with the data privacy expectations of their customers when digitising their offering, according to a new Heart Matters study announced by SAP Southeast Asia.

COMPANY NEWS:  Data integration and data integrity provider Talend has announced it is the first integration provider to achieve both the information security management standard ISO/IEC 27001:2013 and the new data privacy controls standard ISO/IEC 27701:2019 certifications,

Australian property technology company Cognian Technologies has announced a new global integration of its Syncromesh wireless canopy technology with Microsoft Azure Sphere to deliver secure IoT solutions for smart buildings.

GUEST OPINION by Ashley Diffey, Country Manager – ANZ and Japan, Ping Identity: The societal changes that occurred during the past 12 months are undeniable, but what’s less talked about are the significant implications for data privacy. First, the massive shift to remote work changed the way data is accessed and secured. And a sharp rise in online transactions means more personal data is being exchanged, stored, and processed than ever before. Further, the amounts of personal data being collected by large technology companies continues to climb, shaking user trust.

Just one in 14 Australian consumers trust organisations to keep their personal information private

GUEST RESEARCH by OpenText: New research from OpenText reveals that nearly half (44%) of Australian consumers would pay more to do business with an organisation that is committed to protecting their personal data, compared to 40 per cent of consumers globally.

GUEST OPINION by Linden Dawson, Customer Success Management Lead, Ping Identity: Amid all the issues and challenges being faced as we battle through the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most overlooked is privacy protection.

GUEST OPINION by Linden Dawson, Customer Success Management Lead, Ping Identity: Amid all the issues and challenges being faced as we battle through the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most overlooked is privacy protection.

CEBIT Australia is the country’s largest and longest-running technology and business event. 

Facebook, Amazon, Google are the companies most at risk from regulatory crackdown in the advertising sector, according to the latest Thematic Scorecard for the sector from analyst firm GlobalData.

A year on from becoming the guiding standard for data handling in Europe, the General Data Protection Regulation is slowly gaining wider acceptance, with many countries outside the EU adopting similar regulations, according to Dr Gero Decker, co-founder and chief executive of business transformation solutions provider, Signavio.

Evolving technology like 5G, artificial intelligence, blockchain, data privacy and cloud will usher in and pave the way for significant IT and network architecture changes in 2019, according to Interconnection and data centre company Equinix.

Mobile employee engagement solutions provider StaffConnect has released a new version of its engagement platform, which it says is designed to improve employee engagement and job satisfaction and provide access to all of the resources needed to do their jobs.

Concern over data privacy is common in Australia, but there are signs comfort towards data sharing is improving, according to newly published research revealing 44% of Aussies agree that they feel more comfortable about the issue of exchanging personal information with companies than in the past.

MarkLogic’s Tim Macdermid talks about the impact new global privacy laws will have on Australian organisations and how best to tackle compliance.  

There’s a crackdown happening across the globe with new laws aimed at giving control back to consumers over their personal data. Companies are, and will increasingly be, held responsible and accountable for the customer data they store and mine.

Global professional services firm Accenture says it is transforming its Code of Business Ethics for the digital age by applying changes including the use of integrated intelligence technology.

Ensuring the privacy of sensitive data is seemingly a problem for many companies, with a newly published study revealing that consumers should not feel confident those companies are adequately protecting their information.

The European Union has told search engine giant Google it should extend its ‘right to be forgotten’ capabilities worldwide.

Human error has been identified as the key vulnerability of cyber security and a major threat to data privacy, according to the security chief of one global security firm.

The UK's largest utilities, British Gas, EDF, ESB and RWE nPower, will meet with the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) from Thursday in London to discuss the implementation of new smart meter roll out plans.