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"It's not just nude photographs Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst and other victims of the celebrity photo theft have to worry about being accessed by hackers - it's their GPS co-ordinates, private text messages, calendars, address books, phone call logs and any other data stored on their phones and backed up to the cloud."

"In an age in which uninterrupted access to the sum total of human knowledge now seems a given, we're in paradoxical danger of losing a lot of recent history."

"Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has unveiled Apple Watch, a device that will not only do what other smartwatches are now expected to do - give you access to apps, email, text messages and health monitoring, but also serve as a payment tool."

This 'Guide to securing personal information' (Guide) provides guidance on the reasonable steps entities are required to take under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) to protect the personal information they hold from misuse, interference, loss, and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. It also includes guidance on the reasonable steps entities are required to take to destroy or de-identify personal information that they hold once it is no longer needed (unless an exception applies).

"HUNDREDS of former and some present Australian spies have posted information about their employment with intelligence agencies on the internet in what security experts have called ''a gift for foreign espionage''. "

"I'm here to speak to you about the legend of data liberation. It's an important story, it's a story about society, about people, about geeks, and it's a story about government."