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Who watches the watchers when the watchers use Wickr?

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageMalcolm Turnbull is known to use secretive messaging apps such as Wickr.AAP Image/Lukas Coch

The latest controversy over Malcolm Turnbull’s use of Wickr should provoke questions about accountability in the age of the cloud.

It’s an age where use of private messaging systems by a digital 1% – an elite that is well connected and...

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