The Gillard Government's decision to set up legislative framework to allow Australia to sign the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime treaty was a good step forward but privacy and civil liberty concerns need to be taken into account, according to a security expert

People concerned about the privacy implications of a move to transferable electronic health and medical records should not be dissuaded by doubt as the benefits outweigh potential drawbacks, according to health industry executives.

They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you're dead.