While mapping streets across 30 countries for Google Maps' "street view" this year, Google cars with cameras on top also picked up our private information from unprotected wireless-internet networks.
Is it, as Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has said, "the single greatest breach in history" of privacy?
Nick Toscano and Emma Buckley Lennox report.
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Cyber law is a murky area. As our controversial internet filter looks ready to be launched within weeks, Google and Yahoo have said they won't cooperate. What action can the government take against their refusal, and what can the internet giants do in return?
Panorama's Bec Petraitis reports.
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Google removed its search engine from mainland China this week as the first step in their plan to halt their Chinese operations entirely.
This follows apparently unsuccessful discussions with the Chinese Government regarding the censorship of search results and the hacking of e-mail accounts of several Chinese human-rights activists.
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