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Political parties are exempt from many of the regulations about spam and unsolicited marketing – and it’s unlikely to change.
Customer data has become a valuable asset for businesses. But privacy laws need to be clearer about what happens to this information when businesses go into liquidation.
The possibility of new ownership over 23andMe has some customers concerned about how their sensitive genetic information will be handled in the future.
The company’s privacy policy does mention sharing data with research bodies, as authorised by Australian law. But few Australians read and understand privacy policies.
Despite the ruling against Bunnings, Australian businesses can continue to collect your biometric information without your explicit consent by simply putting up signs.
The new privacy act reform bill has some welcome amendments, but it doesn’t touch most of the substantive principles that were passed in 1988.
Human Rights Watch has sounded the alarm over Australian children’s images found in a huge data set used to train AI models. It could be a breach of our privacy law.
With doxing suddenly on the national agenda, here’s what you need to know.
Cars can collect data via cameras, microphones, sensors, and connected phones and apps. Our privacy laws need urgent reform if these data are to be kept safe.
Current laws governing policing don’t take into account the capacity of AI to process massive amounts of information quickly – leaving New Zealanders vulnerable to police overreach.
An analysis of 12 popular apps’ privacy policies reveals a number of concerns, including confusing privacy messages and unnecessarily long data retention windows.
The proposals from the Attorney-General’s Department could help bolster Australia’s privacy laws — but there are some deficiencies.
There are many good proposals in Dreyfus’s reform paper. But they risk being lost once again among the voices of those whose interests are served by maintaining the status quo.
Cyber crime is arguably the top risk now facing any business. But things need to change if cyber-insurance is to be viable for most.
Optus made a public announcement about its breach but was not legally required to do so. This needs to change.
With up to 10 million plaintiffs, a successful class action against Optus over its identify data breach could easily be worth billions of dollars.
The terms of the Australian Privacy Principle 3.6 are quite clear. So why is there not a single published case of this law being enforced?
Data collection is big business in the US, but a bipartisan data privacy bill rapidly moving through Congress promises to affect the information websites, social media platforms and all other businesses collect.
Australians – and Australian governments – need to get more savvy about data privacy
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Honorary Professor, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University
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Professor, Monash University
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Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney
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Former data protection and surveillance stream lead, Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation, UNSW Law Faculty, UNSW
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Director, Centre for Internet Safety, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Precision Agriculture Systems, Flinders University
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Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University
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Adjunct Lecturer Practical Ecology, Science and Technology, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England
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PhD candidate, software engineer, University of New England
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Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Professor in Commericial Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor, Head of the Discipline of Accounting, Governance and Regulation, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Professor specialising in Internet law, Bond University