Australia’s electoral commission is gearing up for proposed changes to political donation laws, revealing plans for a “technology-focused refresh” to enable the elusive goal of real-time disclosure. The Australian...
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The large scale data processing behind artificial intelligence is taking a larger share of Australia’s energy grids, with a local expert on Wednesday calling for more transparency on tech...
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The corporate regulator is preparing a fully costed roadmap for a business “data spine” that could underpin a $1.3 billion salvage mission from the registry overhaul frozen by the...
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Lax privacy and data laws mean Australians need to spend more than two minutes to adjust privacy settings on individual websites and apps, compared to just three seconds for...
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Shortly after the US presidential debate finished, the chief executive of Oura, makers of the eponymous health and fitness tracking ring, commented on LinkedIn that the event had literally...
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Data and AI startups are the focus of the Commonwealth Bank’s next accelerator program Xccelerate24, with startups to vie for a $250,000 investment and a potential partnership with Australia’s...
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Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the world has seen an incredible surge in investment, development and use of artificial intelligence applications. According to one estimate, the...
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The consumer data right, or CDR, is a pioneering economic reform that gives consumers the ability to safely share the data Australian businesses hold about them for their own...
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Australia and the United States have been close allies for over a century and have similar views about how to develop, deploy, and govern artificial intelligence. Researchers in the...
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The Commonwealth’s most sensitive data will be stored across Amazon Web Services facilities and shared with Defence and national intelligence agencies through a new Top Secret Cloud from 2027....
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The architect of Australia’s consumer data right is calling for patience with the four-year-old scheme and teased additional future benefits after banks on Wednesday warned almost no one was...
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Photos of Australian children have been used without consent to train artificial intelligence models that generate images. A new report from the non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch has found...
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Local FinTechs have called for greater clarity on the future of the Consumer Data Right, including key reforms to the scheme that have languished before federal Parliament for more...
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The national competition regulator has been urged to monitor the electronic conveyancing market by the NSW Productivity and Equality Commission, as federal assistant minister for competition Andrew Leigh called...