Stories about: Federal Police

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    Driver alert: is it illegal to use GPS navigation on your smartphone? (updated) 02/10/2009 16:53:00

    GPS navigation using mobile phones, smartphones and even some personal media players is nothing new. Thanks to built-in GPS receivers and software, these devices can guide you to your destination using maps that are downloaded on the go or included on the device. With the inclusion of text-to-speech and traffic information features, mobile phones have taken a bite out of the dedicated GPS device market.
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    Bottle Domains loses auDA battle in Supreme Court of Victoria 29/09/2009 18:03:00

    The Supreme Court of Victoria has ruled that the Australian Domain Name Administrator (auDA) acted correctly in its decision to terminate Australian Style Pty Ltd (which is owned by Nicholas Bolton and traded as Bottle Domains) registrar accreditation.
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    Law enforcers get organised on cracking organised cybercrime 04/06/2009 15:38:00

    International cybercrime experts will confer with Australian law enforcers, government, the judiciary and the legal profession at the Australian High Tech Crime Conference next week at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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    Australia cops half of global targeted attacks: report 27/04/2009 14:31:00

    Australia is one of the world's most targeted nations for cyber-crime, according to a security report.
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    Wikileaks raided by German police 25/03/2009 17:00:00

    The owner of whistleblower Web site wikileaks has been raided by German police days after it controversially published the Australian government's Internet blacklists.
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    Microsoft, AFP partner for online safety program 04/03/2009 11:47:00

    The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Microsoft have brought the ThinkUKnow education program to Australia. The program, which originated in the UK, is aimed at educating parents and teachers about how to keep kids away from online predators and other threats.
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    Arrests soar after new wiretap law 23/02/2009 13:08:00

    Criminal arrests made under more powerful wiretapping laws have increase by 96 percent following reforms that make it easier for police to intercept and access telecommunications.
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    Strange bedfellows: Sex and IT unite to stop Net censorship 14/01/2009 11:15:00

    Who would have thought the government's proposed Internet filtering scheme would bring together so many disparate groups all united in their opposition to mandatory censorship?
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    Industry baffled over clean-feed internet pilot 12/12/2008 15:43:00

    Internet Service Providers (ISPs) participating in live trials of the national Internet content filtering scheme say the tests will be undermined by a government decision to test the “clean-feed” blacklist under watered-down conditions.
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    19 arrested over ‘worst ever’ Internet child porn bust 11/12/2008 11:01:00

    Australian Federal Police officers have seized "among the worst" images of child abuse they have seen following a global sting of an online network sharing images and videos of sexually abused children.
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    Police arrest BitTorrent tracker operators in Brisbane 04/12/2008 12:10:00

    The Australian Federal Police (AFP) yesterday arrested and charged two Brisbane men with money laundering offences linked to a BitTorrent tracker site. A $54,000 bank account belonging to one of the men was subsequently frozen.
 
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