Tag: Privacy

Privacy reform must reflect different roles in data handling

Posted on   |  by Jared Ragland
Like many governments and economies, Australia is working to modify and expand its privacy rules to reflect technological innovation. The emergence of artificial intelligence and heightened awareness of how...

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...

Privacy bill delayed amid busy legislative agenda

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
New laws for a long-awaited overhaul of Australia’s outdated privacy regime have been delayed, with the federal government now targeting next month to introduce the legislation. The laws, which...

Google’s cookie phase out crumbles

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Google has abandoned plans to kill off pervasive user tracking technologies known as cookies after four years of effort on alternatives that sparked clashes with regulators and the advertising...

Australians bear soaring cost of managing online privacy

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
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...

AI models riding roughshod over privacy

Posted on   |  by Katharine Kemp
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...

myGov passkey logins among world’s first

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
myGov has become one of the world’s first digital government services to roll out passkeys, removing the need for users to use a password to log into the platform....