Australia’s privacy commissioner says the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is mulling regulatory action against a number of companies that are skirting privacy laws when developing artificial intelligence models.
Commissioner Carly Kind revealed early work by her office that she says is at a “pre-investigation phase”, as the regulator released new guidance setting out its expectations on businesses developing or using AI in their day-to-day work.
It comes as big and small technology companies face criticism for using data collected for other purposes to train AI models without offering an opt-out option, despite this being covered by the Privacy Act.
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