Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo says data localisation requirements currently under consideration by the federal government could prove fruitful for the local data storage and processing sector in Australia....
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Australia’s access to cutting-edge compute capabilities would be restricted if the federal government was to introduce data localisation requirements for certain sensitive datasets, according to Google’s local public policy...
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The federal government is preventing “high-value data uses” by not granting the private sector access to public sector data holdings, according to the Productivity Commission’s first economy-wide report in...
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Security and data quality concerns are the largest barriers to AI system adoption by businesses in Australia, according to a report by CSIRO’s National Artificial Intelligence Centre. Of the...
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A centralised health database without an opt-out mechanism is set to be established in Victoria after controversial legislation passed Parliament with amendments aimed at strengthening privacy protections and oversight....
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The largest provider of data centre services to the federal government has publicly revealed its greenhouse gas emissions for the first time but is continuing its fight to have...
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Five data breaches impacted more than a million Australians each in the second half of 2022, according to new data that also reveals a 41 per cent increase in...
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Former competition watchdog Rod Sims will chair the council tasked with advising the National Data Commissioner on issues relating to the federal government’s new data sharing scheme. Mr Sims,...
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A loophole in Australia’s metadata retention laws allowing non-law enforcement agencies, including local councils, to access telecommunications data will be shut as part of a suite of legislative reforms...
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The federal government should explore industry funding models for the country’s privacy watchdog to give it sufficient resourcing to carry out its growing responsibilities, according to the Privacy Act...
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Digital rights groups have broadly embraced reforms to Commonwealth privacy laws put forward after a two-year review but say the proposals could still be “watered down“ by lobbyists in...
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A “right to erasure” that goes further than the European Union’s data regulations and the introduction of fair and reasonable information handling principles are among the reforms to Commonwealth...
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Tech Council of Australia chief executive Kate Pounder has warned that Australia should not accept growing cyber threats as the cost of doing business online, saying that greater investment...
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OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 has spurred a cascade of articles and commentary on artificial intelligence. The discussion, however, reveals how much artificial intelligence is already deployed....