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Privacy Commissioner rules that “metadata” can be personal information

After two years of campaigning, Fairfax journalist, Ben Grubb, finally got the decision he was seeking: metadata could be considered “personal information” under the Privacy Act 1988 (the ‘Privacy Act’). 

TRIM-RM emerges “last man standing”

HP held its Information Governance Forum 2015 across Australian capital cities over the past two weeks. When a presenter referred to the Records Manager product by its previous name TRIM, he joked “I wish I had a dollar every time I did that. “ If there was someone willing to cough up a gold coin each time a speaker through the day-long event made the same mistake he/she would have been much poorer by the end of the day, as it was a routine slipup, understandable given TRIM’s deep roots in the Australian market.

Australia’s Digital Economy – it’s time to pull our socks up.

While reading the Digital Economy Outlook 2015 report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), I couldn’t help my disappointment for the country that I’m proud to call home. The country I’ve built a business in, the country I employ people within. Furthermore, it’s the country I’ve tried to help by being an active and willing voice in the push to drive the digital agenda. I was embarrassed by what I learnt.

One billion electronic scripts dispensed in Australia

eRx Script Exchange has announced reaching the milestone of  one billion prescriptions dispensed electronically in Australia.

Queensland looks for digital archive provider

The Queensland Government is about to issue a worldwide “Expression of Interest” to build the state’s first Digital Archive.

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