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Govt consults on criminalising doxxing

Attorney General Mark Dreyfus on Sunday launched a two-and-a-half week consultation on privacy law reforms to address doxxing, after hundreds of Jewish Australians’ details were published online. The Albanese...

OAIC takes pathology company to court over data breach

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Australia’s privacy watchdog is taking Australian Clinical Labs to court over a data breach that exposed the personal information of 223,000 Australians, a week after its regulatory actions were criticised...

Groups unite to call for urgent action on privacy reform

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Calls for the federal government to address Australia’s outdated privacy regime have intensified, with digital rights advocates and researchers demanding urgent action in a new open letter. It comes...

Cautious welcome for govt’s planned privacy law upgrade

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The government’s planned upgrade of Australia’s privacy law has been backed by the national regulator and cautiously welcomed by advocates and the tech sector after years of debate. The...

Govt backs landmark reforms to Australian privacy law

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government has agreed to most of the recommendations in a landmark review of Australia’s privacy law to bring it into the digital age, including a right to...

Industry funding model firms for privacy watchdog

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government should explore industry funding models for the country’s privacy watchdog to give it sufficient resourcing to carry out its growing responsibilities, according to the Privacy Act...

Digital rights, industry groups respond to privacy review

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Digital rights groups have broadly embraced reforms to Commonwealth privacy laws put forward after a two-year review but say the proposals could still be “watered down“ by lobbyists in...