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Renters left behind in patchy privacy rules, consumer group warns

Nation leading rental laws in Victoria are curbing data harvesting and uses exploitation, as renters in other states gets “bare minimum” privacy protections, according to a new report. Based...

‘This year, not this decade’: Landmark privacy reforms arrive

31 August 2026 | by Joseph Brookes

Landmark reforms to Australia’s privacy law unveiled on Monday will introduce a new ‘fair and reasonable test’ for data collection and use, and the right for Australians to demand...

Rowland escalates smart glasses as privacy priority

7 August 2026 | by Justin Hendry

Cheap smart glasses from Kmart have forced Australia’s stalled privacy law reforms back into focus, with the federal government pressing the national regulator to urgently assess whether further intervention...

Data matching disarray as dept flouts audit office

6 August 2026 | by Joseph Brookes

Government agencies have not launched a fully-fledged review of decades-old data matching laws, despite clear recommendations from the auditor-general to do so last year and warnings in the Robodebt...

100k SMEs lose privacy exemptions as anti-laundering reforms kick in

1 July 2026 | by David Allen

More than 100,000 small businesses face hefty fines and other regulatory penalties starting on Wednesday as long-anticipated reforms to Australia’s money laundering regime come into effect. Five classes of...

Meta tool to track employee mouse clicks faces EU privacy hit

31 May 2026 | by Katie Paul

Meta Platforms’ plan to collect detailed records of US employees’ computer usage for training its AI models is more extensive than initially described and set to capture non-US data...

OAIC backlog deepens as privacy complaints surge

26 May 2026 | by Justin Hendry

Australians are flooding the privacy watchdog with complaints faster than it can resolve them, with caseloads surging 73 per cent in less than a year despite it finalising 38...

‘Waiting for Godot’: Big privacy reforms still nowhere in sight

25 May 2026 | by Justin Hendry

The federal government has yet to begin consulting on the substantive privacy reforms promised nearly 18 months ago, leaving advocates in the dark about when the bigger overhaul will...

Rental tech firm ordered to cease ‘dark patterns’ data grab

22 April 2026 | by Joseph Brookes

A Brisbane real estate software firm has been ordered to stop exploiting dark patterns to collect unnecessary personal information from rental applicants, such as children’s names and the type...

AI data mining: PC hops back on the copyright fence

19 December 2025 | by Joseph Brookes

The Productivity Commission has cooled on its controversial proposal to amend copyright law so AI models can more easily train on Australian content, recommending the government bide its time...

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Renters left behind in patchy privacy rules, consumer group warns

‘This year, not this decade’: Landmark privacy reforms arrive

Rowland escalates smart glasses as privacy priority

100k SMEs lose privacy exemptions as anti-laundering reforms kick in

Meta tool to track employee mouse clicks faces EU privacy hit

OAIC backlog deepens as privacy complaints surge

‘Waiting for Godot’: Big privacy reforms still nowhere in sight

Rental tech firm ordered to cease ‘dark patterns’ data grab

AI data mining: PC hops back on the copyright fence

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