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OpenAI apologises for hacking Medicare

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Original article by Jared Lynch
The Australian – Page: 2 : 30-Sep-26

ChatGPT’s developer OpenAI has advised that chief strategy officer Jason Kwon will appear before the Senate’s inquiry into AI data centres. The company has also apologised for the hacking of the Medicare health statistics portal by one of its AI agents, which had been instructed to research government spending per person on medicines for skin conditions in Victoria; OpenAI said the AI agent had difficulty obtaining that information, and it took actions that it had not been authorised to make. Meanwhile, software company SAP has warned that 71 per cent of federal government entities are using legacy technology that is no longer supported and is therefore vulnerable to cyber attacks.

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Privacy safeguards paramount in shift towards digital IDs, vows Taylor

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Original article by Andrew Tillett
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 8 : 17-Oct-17

The federal government is in the process of setting up a system whereby people can apply for a "digital identity" in order to access government services online. Assistant Digital Transformation Minister Angus Taylor will on 17 October release details of how people can apply for a digital ID under its "GovPass" program. He will stress that privacy safeguards have been built into the program, and that getting a digital ID is purely voluntary.

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