The Western Australian Parliament has been asked to consider changes to a signature public sector privacy and data sharing bill, amid criticisms that the proposed legislation delivers only “privacy...
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Wikipedia pages for Australian cities, national parks and landmarks present a “sanitised” neo-colonial image of the nation, according to new research, raising concerns that artificial intelligence is amplifying and...
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Chinese-owned data centre provider Global Switch Australia will be acquired by asset manager HMC Capital for $2 billion, more than four years after federal government agencies were told to...
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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...
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In a recent interview, the outwardly mild-mannered former Google chief executive and chairman Eric Schmidt made some bold statements. He revealed that ‘his friends” at the forefront of artificial...
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The number of companies waiting for sign-off under the federal government’s troubled data sovereignty scheme has reached its highest level in two years. Amid a review of the scheme...
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Victoria’s privacy watchdog has ordered the state’s child protection agency to block access to generative AI tools on its network after a caseworker entered sensitive personal information into ChatGPT...
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Last year, I started getting a lot of unsolicited phone calls, mainly from people trying to sell me things. This came as a surprise because, as a data scientist,...
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Meta has defended its use of Australian users’ social media posts to train artificial intelligence without express consent, arguing that only publicly available data from its platforms is fed...
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The Greens are alarmed by the federal government’s “extraordinarily unambitious” update to Australia’s privacy laws and have called for additional personal information protections to be baked into the bill...
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Digital rights and industry groups say new privacy legislation falls short on protecting people and boosting competition, as the latest attempt to modernise Australia’s privacy laws approaches its fifth...
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Long awaited privacy act reforms to be unveiled on Thursday will not deliver on the most ambitious recommendations of a 2022 review but will pave the way for more...
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Australian Facebook users’ posts from as far back as 2007 are being used to train Meta’s artificial intelligence models, the company conceded on Wednesday at a tense Senate inquiry...
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Australian organisations are struggling to get value out of early AI deployments and could be walking into a cost trap, Gartner analysts warned on Monday, urging CIOs to study...