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The insidious creep of US and Chinese technology has left a cold, hard reality for Australia
A vast technology gap that has eaten deeply into Australia's ability to determine its own path is now so vast, it has become impossible to bridge, writes Linton Besser.
Despite tendering to deliver a Top Secret cloud for the Australian government's most sensitive data, then negotiating throughout 2021 with the Department of Defence and the Office of National Intelligence, Microsoft pulled the pin, with no warning, mid-way through 2022. Vault Cloud, a local data storage company certified by the Australian Signals Directorate, is playing such a role; it picked up a $3 million contract with Defence after Microsoft's sudden departure. Consider ASIC's initiative through the prism of Elliot's warning about bias: here, a vital public institution, the corporate cop no less, is seeking to rely on an overseas-trained, black-box technology, to filter the correspondence of citizens to their own parliament.
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