The world’s biggest technology companies have dismissed concerns by Australian regulators about the potential for self-preferencing and the lack of competition, recommending that the watchdogs focus on “outcomes” rather...
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Most of the world’s biggest online publishers are not blocking bots from crawling their content to train generative AI, with some notable exceptions including the ABC and Australia’s regional...
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Negotiations over the design of critical infrastructure rules connected with laws passed almost 18 months ago are ongoing between the federal government and Microsoft, one of the company’s most...
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Amazon’s local policy leaders could not name a single use of generative AI by the company in Australia or what datasets it would be trained on, despite its global...
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Services Australia has declined to tell Parliament what data it is collecting with controversial Israeli spyware and confirmed it has never been knocked back from a warrant to deploy...
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After a two-year migration, the Tax Office has removed the last of its data and assets from a Chinese-owned data centre in Sydney, which had long been blacklisted by...
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Meta subsidiaries have been fined $20 million by the Federal Court for not providing sufficient notice to VPN users that their data would be collected for commercial benefit. The...
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New South Wales’ digital twin will undergo extensive work over the next 12 months to bring to life its next set of features, with the state government to enlist...
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Data brokers that source information from unwitting consumers will be investigated by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission as part of the latest digital platforms inquiry probe. With the...
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The department responsible for robodebt tried to water down independent advice from data experts and asked the government technology agency to enhance the illegal scheme’s “user experience” in less...
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As cybercrime surges across the public and private sectors, global tech companies are being challenged to tighten data localisation and data sovereignty capability while supporting the federal government’s vision...
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A New South Wales parliamentary inquiry has been created to examine the use of artificial intelligence in the state, with senior members of the government and opposition increasingly concerned...
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At a campus on the outskirts of London, about 500 trainee nurses each year are being taught to use the cutting edge technology that industry thinks can put the...
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A disability data hub with de-identified information shared from state and federal government agencies will be up and running next year and fully operational by 2026, half a decade...