There is a common concern my friends and colleagues have been talking about recently, and it’s the increasing number of data breaches and account credential leaks in the last year. Since April 2021, Have I Been Pwned has reported over 761 million unique account leaks, and it doesn’t look like hackers are slowing down their efforts to obtain your unique usernames and passwords. If you aren’t using the following two account security measures to protect your data and identity online, you better start!

The Australian Census, which is compulsory for every Australian to complete every five years, “provides an important statistical snapshot of [the Australian] nation” (ABS, 2015). This data is extremely vital, as it is used to assist government planning on a national and local scale, public funding, electoral boundaries, and other future policies that provide long term benefits to the Australian population.

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology provides a communication link between the brain and an external machine, that can be programmed to interpret the signals received from the brain to do any specific task. The importance of BCI technology is that it will disrupt the way we communicate with technology, and with one another, completely.