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iPhone app shames NSW restaurants with food safety breaches

Food safety breaches are listed for 12 months on the NSW government website.  If a restaurant remedies the situation, should they be penalised for that long?

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Dirty Aussie restaurants? There’s an app for that

A new iPhone app will tell you if a Sydney restaurant has been fined for breach of food safety standards.

The application, FoodWatch NSW, brings the Food Authority’s name-and-shame list to your fingertips by using the iPhone’s GPS to show you a list of restaurants near your location that have been added to the list.

The software was developed by mogeneration and sources the data from the NSW Food Authority list on its website.

Applications developed for the iPhone that use government website information have attracted controversy in recent months.

In March this year, RailCorp threatened legal action against a software developer, Alvin Singh after he developed an iPhone application allowing users to view Sydney train and ferry timetables.

The application was based on information from the RailCorp website. RailCorp has since been ordered by NSW Premier Nathan Rees to co-operate with the developer.

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Drug testing kit for kids ‘ruins trust’

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Drug testing kit for kids ‘ruins trust’

A new home-testing kit that detects drug use through hair samples has been branded an invasion of privacy by Australian civil liberties and health groups.

Parents who buy the A$65 (NZ$80) kit can collect a lock of their child’s hair and send it to the US to be analysed for drugs including marijuana, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, amphetamine and methamphetamine. The results, claimed to be 99.9 per cent accurate, are available online within 48 hours.

NSW Council for Civil Liberties president Cameron Murphy said such kits were notoriously inaccurate and called for consumers to be wary.

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Study: Texting while driving increases crash risk 23-fold

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Study: Texting while driving increases crash risk 23-fold

After studying the behavior of real truck drivers covering more than 6 million miles of road, the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute says people who send text messages while driving are 23 times more likely to be in a crash (or what they call a near crash event) than non-distracted drivers.

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