The privacy and information watchdog has slashed dozens of staff in response to a 23 per cent budget cut by government and a review by management consultants, sparking fears...
Australia’s first standalone Cybersecurity Bill has passed into law, introducing a mandatory ransomware reporting regime and protections for businesses that cooperate with authorities in the aftermath of a cyber-attack....
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...
A parliamentary inquiry has rebuffed calls for laws banning AI-generated images and videos in election campaigns despite acknowledging the technology will almost certainly be used to spread disinformation. Crossbench...
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...
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...
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...
New laws for a long-awaited overhaul of Australia’s outdated privacy regime have been delayed, with the federal government now targeting next month to introduce the legislation.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...
Australia’s digital identity scheme is set to expand beyond the federal government to states and territories and the private sector after a landmark bill, first drafted more than three...
Controversial legislation that creates a licence-free environment for technology sharing between Australia and the United States and United Kingdom has passed Parliament with amendments that bake in exemptions for...