Australian Federal Police’s high-tech collection and capability manager, Grant Edwards, expressed that the mutual legal assistance treaty with the US is outdated and not designed to allow for a rapid response to online crime. And that Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, hasn’t been helpful with the push. A revised treaty, supported by the AFP, is necessary to speed up the actioning of the police’s right to obtain information about online crime using a warrant on Facebook, which is head-quartered in the United States....

It’s that time again, the UN conference on climate changeCOP26, is on again in Glasgow. Attendees arrive by train, ride indouble-decker electric buses, and receive escort by police riding modified electricHarley-Davidson LiveWire motorcycles. But don’t get too excited — those motorbikes are loaners only. Let’s talk about the big fat elephant in the room at COP26 – transport and specifically the energy that powers transport and how one country has managed to fuck things up so spectacularly — Australia....

Australia wants AI to handle divorces — here’s why How it works According to Amica’s website, it “considers legal principles and applies them to your circumstances”. In other words, the software draws on mass data (collected and embedded by its designers) from similar past cases to make suggestions to users. Amica demonstrates AI’s potential in solving legal problems in family disputes. Interestingly, it’s not the only tool of this kind in the legal field....

Google’s Android mobile operating system overtook sales of Apple’s iPhone for the first time in Australia, accounting for 42.9 percent of smartphones sold in the country compared to Apple’s 37.2 percent share, according to a new report byKantar ComTech WorldPanel. New product launches by HTC and Samsung are thought to have boosted sales, with Samsung Galaxy S II and HTC’s Desire S, Desire Z and Incredible S smartphones launching recently in the country....

After Australian bank ANZ ended a trial of contactless NFC payments in April, it has announced that it won’t be going ahead with the technology in its current form. The company cited problems with the MicroSD card approach, which involved giving users a card that enabled NFC and contained the user’s banking details. The company didn’t go into detail on the problems with MicroSD, but it can be assumed that at least part of the problem lies with the limited support for MicroSD in the most popular smartphones preventing mass consumer adoption....