The Australian arm of US telco Verizon has inked an agreement with NBN Co to provide the National Broadband Network operator with sourced business connectivity services to Australian enterprise and government customers.

Telecommunications provider MNF Group has reported a drop in revenue of 2.3% to $215.6 million for 2019 compared to 2018, and also a 4% decline in NPAT to $11.4 million for the year.

Machine identity protection provider Venafi has found that a survey of government-mandated encryption backdoors show that 80% of the respondents say countries with government-mandated encryption backdoors are more vulnerable to cyberattacks targeting election infrastructure.

Amazon continues to dominate the global smart speaker market by shipping 6.6 million units of Echo smart speakers in the second quarter of 2019, and maintaining its lead over China’s Baidu - which bumped Google down to third spot in the market - the analyst firm Canalys says.

Digital rights organisation Electronic Frontiers Australia has joined with health policy group Future Wise, charity Digital Rights Watch and the Australian Privacy Foundation to call again for a comprehensive review of privacy provisions for healthcare data, at the same time as denouncing the sharing of patient health data for secondary use.

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