I think the policy should confirm and enforce that all entities need to abide by the wishes of the deceased (without reason). I don't think we can simply come to a single standard act to {delete, freeze, publicitize} the information.

Then, close the policy with clauses that outline in the event nothing is in the will, the information is available via common law practices (for example a spouse having access to a safety deposit box).

If I want my account deleted, so be it. If I want it open to the public, so be it. If I want to hand over the keys to my social media account to my best friend to let him keep posting as me, then so be it.

What I don't want is for my wishes to be for my wife to have access to all my information (Dropbox, KeePass safes, bank accounts) and her to be denied that access.

This makes a lot of sense. Twitter is and has always been a facilitator of open communication, particularly from censoring governments. This is just an extension of that.

I have always kept an eye on Whisper Systems and specifically TextSecure (and WhisperCore) but they never became really "usable". I would (and I think many people) love to be able to securely text message (or via iMessage or Facebook) knowing it's safely encrypted but still highly usable (similar to Pidgin + OTR).

Will they try to use this for corporate evil? Maybe. But at the same token WhisperSystems never had enough power/traction to develop what they really wanted and we (the people) needed.

Agreed!

I've recently invested time and changed *all* my online passwords. Everything stored inside KeePass with random very strong passwords. Even comparing with the 'core' sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Ebay, Paypal, Gmail --- *ALL* of them have different requirements which I think is unacceptable. Some enforce 14 chars but don't accept alpha-characters while others cap at 20. One big kudos is Facebook was the best and accepted 256 random characters.

So yes, *we* need to agreed on the minimum standard that all passwords can be. I will propose 20 chars, allowing all upper/lowercase alpha-numerics and non-alphanumeric.

Yes I appreciate security isn't just a simple as allowing 256 random chars, but as the above posters suggested, *WE* (customers) should at least be able to expect a certain level of standards.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody.” -Bill Gates (1981)

Dear Ms. Julia Gillard,

As a 20-something tax paying adult I feel this is a topic that needs to be resolved as soon as possible. I am not against bometric or ID scanning, however I am extremely against zero policies being implemented to address this. We must implement the following policies to resolve this:

1. Do not allow any club/pub/anything to automatically perform these scans without prior consent
2. Enforce real and strong penalties for pubs/clubs who do not store, protect and secure this information.

Only a few months ago, Vodafone released public information of it's customers. Vodafone is a tech savvy company., I can only imagine how bad the computer information security policies in-place within these clubs/pubs.

I have had my ID scanned in the past at a nightclubs. You line up, the bouncer looks at your ID and immediately (and unethically, if that exists in the bouncer world) passes it to another person who scans it. If you blink, you wouldn't even have realised it. The only thing worse than this is the fact that now my information is "somewhere" in the underground scene in Australia and I have no way of finding out who owns it or how I can have it purged.

Sadly our Minister for Privacy and Freedom of Information (Brendan O'Connor) doesn't understand the fundamentals of Information Security.

Please fix this as soon as possible.

Although valid points, you're still inserting invalid and virtual road blocks that don't need to exist.

Let's assume the future cars are electric -- no cylinders.
Let's install run-flats with censors that allows it to cleanly exit a train.
Let's enforce a minimum satefy standard to allow the car to participate in the train (last service passed OK and was less than x KM's)

In other words, the Internet probably wouldn't exist in the state it is in today if people like you were present in the design meetings.

Piracy is a simple scapegoat for an overzealous and underachieving CxO.

Call me naive, but it seems to me that a lot of these problems can be resolved by Google allowing (and release a application to do it) for any device to be flashed reliably to a stock Android [stable] release. Past and present.

Manufacturers don't want to update there fancy phone and custom UI to the latest? That's fine. But the user is still allowed to manually update themselves and lose the original features they bought into. Guess what -- those fancy features that brought them to your phone may prove to be optional and there's a much better chance they won't choose your hardware platform moving forward. This may be a big enough kick up the butt that the manufacturers need.

In effort of open information, this is roughly how much we pay for goods and services in Australia. Like the above poster, I travel to the USA a lot and quite frankly, I'm like a kid in a candy store for most of the everyone. Everything in the USA is substantially cheaper.

• Unleaded Petrol with 10% ethanol: $1.30c a Litre (that's $5/gallon for you Americans!)
• Bread: $3 AUD
• Milk 2L: $2 AUD
• McDonald's Large Big Mac Meal: $9 AUD
• Typical Main Meal at a nice (not fine dining) restaurant: $30 AUD
• Panasonic 50" 1080p HDTV: $2000 AUD
• "Australian" Family Car (Holden Commodore): $35,000
• BMW 320ci (this is considered a luxury car in Australia): $65,000

I hope this helps the rest of the world 'understand' how violated we are by monopolized retailers. Aussie dollar gets stronger overseas, people realize it's better to shop overseas and then our fat cat CEO's cry foul play.

I'm an Australian consumer and I will happily pay an extra 10% on purchases for GST on behalf of the overseas retailer.

Goods online are, in nearly all instances over 50% cheaper overseas. If I can give 10% of this money to Australia to help support our country I am happy to do so.

Dear Retailers who are involved in this,

Please rest assured I and every other consumer who is outraged at your comments will never shop in your overpriced, monopolized brick and mortar stores ever again. Our AUD has almost doubled in value (54c to 101c vs USD) yet our prices are still increasing.

When you stop buying from China, so will we.