Meta will pay up to $50 million to users in Australia as part of its settlement with the privacy regulator over the tech giant’s Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal,...
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The CSIRO’s newest spinout is going after a geospatial mapping and digital twin market that is booming thanks to an explosion in data, after commercialising its technology over a...
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Services Australia still doesn’t have the legislative authority to re-commence the use of automated systems to support the processing of welfare claims 20 months since they were paused, according...
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Secret ballots have long been fundamental to democracy, ensuring the integrity of elections in both government and corporate settings. Traditionally, votes are cast on physical paper, creating a clear...
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The national security legislation watchdog is considering whether Australia’s peak criminal intelligence agency needs controversial powers that allow it to take over the online accounts of criminals and hack...
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Online account takeover powers were used to fight terrorism for the first time last year, with the federal police using controversial identify and disrupt laws to secretly gather evidence....
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The Western Australian government has pushed its public sector privacy and information sharing bill through parliament with few amendments at its last opportunity before the state election, despite ongoing...
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The national competition watchdog is assessing claims that eConveyancing monopolist PEXA engaged in anti-competitive conduct during efforts that were supposed to make its systems interoperable with competitors. These efforts...
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A $6 million investment in Australia’s largest university-based machine learning research group by the Commonwealth Bank earlier this year paid for itself just three weeks into the five-year partnership....
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New research reveals serious privacy flaws in the data practices of new internet connected cars in Australia. It’s yet another reason why we need urgent reform of privacy laws....
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Hardware giant Bunnings breached the privacy of potentially hundreds of thousands of Australians when it used facial recognition technology on in-store CCTV footage, the privacy watchdog has found. In...
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The federal Opposition has accused the government of wedge tactics by bundling a right to sue with other privacy reforms and new doxxing laws, and is threatening to withhold...
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Tweaks to consumer data right rules effective from Tuesday will allow energy companies to shield their trial products for two years from the scheme’s data sharing obligations in a...
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More than 200,000 attempts to use stolen identity credentials legitimately were blocked by the federal government’s anti-fraud register in just seven months — a 66 per cent increase since...