IT Advocate: Privacy rules
Welcome CIO’s new series of columns devoted to legal issues and IT. This month: the increasing need for organisations to comply with privacy laws.
View ArticleHow to reduce the risks and costs of projects: Top 10 IT procurement mistakes
Use these legal guidelines when arranging IT purchasing deals to help your organization reduce the risks and costs of projects.
View ArticleBe aware of your Web site terms and conditions
CIOs must pay close attention to the terms and conditions listed on their Web sites if they want to avoid the risk of costly litigation.
View ArticleIT Advocate: The privacy minefield
There are significant differences between state and federal privacy legislation. CIOs who deal with government agencies or other public sector organisations must determine the privacy laws applicable...
View Article10 tips for protecting your legal rights when a project goes pear-shaped
Practical measures CIOs should take when an IT project first gets into trouble to preserve their organisations' rights when a project goes seriously wrong.
View ArticleHow to structure a service agreement that best suits your organization's needs
Thanks to the rise of Cloud Computing, CIOs are increasingly being confronted with service agreements that relate to abstract concepts like software functionality or remote hardware capacity. Here's...
View ArticlePrivacy changes could affect Cloud projects
It is important to plan ahead when hopping into the Cloud. Cloud-hopping companies and their suppliers need to know where their data is going, and should plan for the possibility that they may later...
View ArticleIT trends and their legal disruptors
If nothing else will cause CIOs insomnia in 2011 it will be the potential disruptive effects of legal issues that walk hand in hand with this year's IT trends. Most of the lists of trends look the same...
View ArticleBe mindful of the information you disclose about former staff
Employment references are par for the recruitment course, but it’s not always simple. You should be careful about the information you disclose about former staff to potential employers, warns senior...
View ArticleTax Commissioner clamps down on phoenix activities and ‘consultants’
Chasing business debts for a fairer system sees the Australian Tax Commissioner Michael D’Ascenzo setting his sights on superannuation. Now the directors’ penalty regime will see all directors made...
View ArticleWednesday Grok: SOPA opponents crank up The Angry
You know it is evil because Rupert Murdoch supports it. We're talking about the Stop Online Priacy Act (SOPA) and its sister, Protect IP Act (PIPA).
View ArticleWednesday Grok: SOPA is back from the dead, and this time it’s a Zombie
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which raised so much sound and fury last year, is missing a few limbs, and it’s not as obvious as before. But as [[xref: http://goo.gl/T9l8x |Techcrunch|]] pointed...
View ArticleMonday Grok: Apple pwns Samsung
Apple’s lawyers totally pwned Samsung’s lawyers. Over the weekend, it was decided by a jury that Samsung basically stole a lot of Apple’s smartphone ideas, giving the world’s biggest company a billion...
View ArticleWednesday Grok: Google dismisses wider war talk after court verdict
It’s hard to imagine a court verdict resulting in a billion dollar damages ruling could be considered a warm up act, but that is the prism through which Apple’s pwnage of Samsung over the weekend is...
View ArticleOpinion: New approaches to managing risk in complex IT projects
As a younger lawyer, I recall watching a vendor and a customer sparring fiercely over the scope and detail of a data loss indemnity for a solid week. It was a lively experience – a range of scenarios...
View ArticleKey to omnichannel CX is customisation
In order to achieve success with omnichannel customer experience strategy, companies need to utilise user personas, while maintaining excellence across all channels, according to customer...
View ArticleConroy demands on air apology from Fifield for AFP raids
Senator Stephen Conroy demanded an on air apology from Senator Mitch Fifield last night for the AFP's raids on his office. The AFP searched Conroy's office in May in search of the source of a number of...
View Article'Techno-pilfering' of IP between the lines of China's five year plan: think tank
China’s Thirteenth Five-Year Plan indicates the nation’s plan to hack Australian companies and steal intellectual property, says a US cyber security think tank.
View ArticleIP Australia boosts training following messy software patent case
IP Australia has given examiners extra training and updated its examination manual following a court case over a software patent.
View ArticleAussie companies caught using $200k worth of unlicensed software so far this...
Australian businesses have been caught using $200,000 worth of unlicensed software so far this year, according to industry advocate BSA.
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