Not every foreign business in China need fear the cold winds of data regulation, but multinationals that capitalise on the PRC’s vast market and R&D capacity can expect to...
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Australia’s Human Rights Commissioner Ed Santow will lead a University of Technology Sydney (UTS) ‘responsible technology’ initiative focused on AI when he steps down from his role at the...
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Australia needs a “data code” for children to ensure popular digital services like Instagram and Tik Tok are not collecting and processing information in harmful ways, according to a...
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The Australian competition regulator is eagerly watching on as Google faces another significant antitrust lawsuit in the US, with more than 35 states taking on the tech giant over...
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A significant review of the Privacy Act has been delayed, with a discussion paper still yet to be released 18 months after it was launched, while draft legislation introducing...
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When Australia’s competition watchdog released its landmark report into digital platforms two years ago, it surprised some by not calling for the big tech firms to be broken up....
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Questions remain about the quality of data being used in Australia’s “world leading” consumer data portability scheme one year after it was launched, according to its newest entrant. Basiq,...
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Regional businesses are significant contributors to Australia’s economy but must contend with many challenges from which their metropolitan area counterparts are largely spared: fire, drought, flood and, most recently,...
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The ABC has delayed the introduction of mandatory logins for its video streaming platform iview, amid concerns the requirement was unlawful and a risk to user privacy through the...
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Ernst & Young will be paid more than $1.5 million per month in the second half of 2021 to provide IT data and analytics services for the tax office,...
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Australians are the tenth most “data surveilled” citizens in the world, according to analysis of data requests by government authorities to Big Tech companies over the last eight years,...
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The New South Wales government has allocated a further $500m to its Digital Restart Fund, expanding Australia’s biggest government digital infrastructure program beyond $2 billion and extending it a...
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The Victorian government won’t move to completely block police access to its COVID-19 QR code check-in app data despite authorities trying to obtain this information on multiple occasions, in...
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Labor has called on the federal government to urgently support its legislation introducing a mandatory ransomware notification scheme which “lays the foundation” for enforcement actions against cyber attacks. Shadow...