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...
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...
A Labor-led parliamentary committee has urged the federal government to appoint a Digital Affairs minister to coordinate the regulation of social media and other digital platforms, including across privacy,...
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...
Serious data breaches are occurring at the highest rate in the last three and a half years, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, as it awaits...
Australia’s privacy watchdog will not probe facial recognition company Clearview AI again despite remaining questions over whether it failed to comply with orders issued to it following breaches of...
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has again called on Toni Pirani to fill in as Freedom of Information Commissioner as the agency struggles to find a long-term...
The federal government is being urged to close a “gaping” hole in Australia’s antiquated privacy regime by removing the small business carve out, following the country’s largest data breach...
The Australian privacy watchdog is taking Medibank to court over the insurer’s 2022 data breach, alleging the company did not adequately protect the data of its customers before the...
Australia’s national privacy office will lose more than $11 million in the next financial year as it faces a funding cliff and a backlog of investigations and freedom of...