Tag: OAIC

Labor-led committee calls for single Digital Affairs minister

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A Labor-led parliamentary committee has urged the federal government to appoint a Digital Affairs minister to coordinate the regulation of social media and other digital platforms, including across privacy,...

Australia’s privacy tsar sets sights on AI training

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
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...

Data breaches hit three-year high: OAIC

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Serious data breaches are occurring at the highest rate in the last three and a half years, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, as it awaits...

OAIC won’t pursue Clearview AI further on privacy breach

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia’s privacy watchdog will not probe facial recognition company Clearview AI again despite remaining questions over whether it failed to comply with orders issued to it following breaches of...

Gig Guide: Pirani returns to OAIC as FOI Commissioner

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has again called on Toni Pirani to fill in as Freedom of Information Commissioner as the agency struggles to find a long-term...

Mass hack exposes ‘gaping’ hole in small business privacy

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government is being urged to close a “gaping” hole in Australia’s antiquated privacy regime by removing the small business carve out, following the country’s largest data breach...

Privacy watchdog sues Medibank over 2022 hack

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Australian privacy watchdog is taking Medibank to court over the insurer’s 2022 data breach, alleging the company did not adequately protect the data of its customers before the...

Privacy watchdog loses $12m and faces funding cliff

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s national privacy office will lose more than $11 million in the next financial year as it faces a funding cliff and a backlog of investigations and freedom of...

Gig Guide: FOI Commissioner leaps to information role

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia’s new Information Commissioner will be Elizabeth Tydd when incumbent Angelene Falk departs in mid-August. Ms Tydd is currently serving as the Freedom of Information (FOI) Commissioner, having only...