Foreign companies operating in Australia could soon be subject to the Privacy Act even if they do not collect or hold citizen data “directly from a source in Australia”...
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The federal government will this week introduce legislation that radically increases the penalties to $50 million and more against companies for repeated or serious privacy breaches. The law changes...
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The Western Australian government is facing renewed calls to introduce public sector privacy laws following a spate of high-profile data breaches in the private sector and questions over data...
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The Western Australian police will retain personal information collected by the state’s COVID-19 border management system for at least 25 years, before archiving it indefinitely, the state government has...
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The New South Wales Government’s new artificial intelligence assurance framework is a “soft stick” intended at providing the guard rails for the use of the technology, the state’s chief...
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The use of facial recognition by law enforcement is “misunderstood” and there is no agreed definition of high-risk applications, according to NSW Police, which has defended employing the controversial...
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Assessments of hosting service providers against the Hosting Certification Framework (HCF) have been partially outsourced by the Digital Transformation Agency, as the certification backlog for the data sovereignty scheme...
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A treaty with the United States to expedite the sharing of data for law enforcement purposes is predicted to lead to a jump in requests to US tech companies...
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Victoria’s privacy watchdog has called for data breach notification laws in the state after a government department failed to tell people their data had been exposed in a serious...
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A $37 billion lawsuit facing Google in the EU and UK over alleged anticompetitive conduct in digital advertising is being monitored by the Australian competition regulator as it finalises...
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“Deficiencies” in Commonwealth privacy laws are stopping European researchers from sharing data with Australian counterparts and may force local projects offshore, researchers have warned. Universities are calling for an...
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The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has struggled to reach consensus among its diverse membership base on data localisation, but has broadly agreed that onshore hosting does not guarantee...
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State and territory governments and the national science agency are urging the federal government to explore data localisation requirements for both government and critical infrastructure providers, putting themselves at...
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“Serious compliance issues” with law enforcement access to metadata and content under Australia’s telecommunications interception laws have climbed for the third straight year, the Commonwealth Ombudsman has found. The...