Privacy and Data

Last week saw a watershed moment in Australia’s approach to cyber regulation, with the Federal Government introducing a raft of Bills to Parliament as part of a Cyber Security Legislative Package. When introducing the package, Minister for…

The Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 (the Bill) was tabled in the House of Representatives this morning. This is the first piece of legislation to come out of the Attorney General’s four-year review of the Privacy Act.

Australian government to overhaul Privacy Act to outlaw doxxing and protect personal information. Legislation expected soon despite busy parliamentary schedule. Read now.

This week, its more from the school of thought that ’AI-regulation-based-on-existing-regulatory-principles’ would be a half-finished job. Last week we discussed a paper from Harvard’s Kennedy School on the need to radically rethink AI

On 22 November 2023, the Federal Government released the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy. The Strategy was accompanied by the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Action Plan (Action Plan), which supplements the Strategy and det…

Are cyber breach investigation reports produced by external consultants protected by legal professional privilege? What do courts consider when deciding whether investigation reports are privileged? In the recent decision of Robertson v Sin…

It was almost 4 years ago, back in December of 2019 that the review of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) was first announced by the then Attorney-General (the Review).

By 2024, it is predicted that 60% of data used to train artificial intelligence systems globally will be synthetic: i.e. artificially-generated data created using generative AI. In a recent article, two legal academics, Michal S Gal and Orl…

In her Harvard Law and Technology Journal article, Alice Xiang, Sony’s Global Head of AI Ethics, argues that, in the headlong rush to regulate FRT, there is “[a]n under-appreciated tension between privacy protections and bias mitigation

After the highly publicised data breaches that have occurred in the Australian market recently, the spotlight on privacy obligations is brighter than ever. In this article we discuss seven basic questions all charities should be asking when…

When we last wrote about deepfakes in 2019 they had just started to capture the public’s imagination. Jordan Peele’s viral deepfake of Barack Obama, which intended to caution against the inherent political risks of the technology, typified…

As directed by the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act 2020, the US Government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology has released an Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework.

Following a period of consultation at the end of 2022, the Security of Critical Infrastructure Rules have now been registered under the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (Cth).

In this article we explore the key highlights of the Privacy Act Report.

Last year, OECD member countries adopted an intergovernmental agreement setting out their shared principles for government access to personal data held by private entities. The OECD Declaration documents principles and safeguards, drawn fro…