JURIST

APRIL 22, 2023

Filed in the Federal Court of Australia, the lawsuit accuses Optus of violating fundamental privacy principles and breaching its duty of care to its customers. The post Citing rights to privacy, customers sue Australian telecoms giant Optus over major data breach appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk found that Clearview AI breached Australia’s privacy laws through the covert collection of biometric information form the internet and then incorporating it into a facial recognition tool.

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JURIST

MAY 18, 2023

In signing the law, Gianforte said: The Chinese Communist Party using TikTok to spy on Americans, violate their privacy, and collect their personal, private, and sensitive information is well-documented. Other countries have banned the app from government-issued devices, including countries such as Australia and Canada , as well as the EU.

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JURIST

JULY 3, 2024

The analysis “found 190 photos of children from all of Australia’s states and territories,” which “span the entirety of childhood.” HRW alleges this, coupled with current AI models’ incapability of forgetting data they were trained on, creates privacy risks that lead to exploitation and further harm.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The Australian Government on Monday published a draft of a new online privacy act regulating social media companies. The proposed act, called the Online Privacy Bill , builds on Australia’s Privacy Act of 1988.

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JURIST

JUNE 21, 2024

However, the names have been changed for privacy purposes. ” The post Class action against Australia youth detention centre on track to deliver AU$75 million to victims appeared first on JURIST - News. The three boys were not yet teenagers.”

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In accordance with obligations owed to individuals involved, including under the Privacy Act, I am prohibited from disclosing the details and outcomes.” The post Australia military commanders stripped of medals over Afghanistan war crime allegations appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2023

” Maurice Blackburn made a representative complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) in November 2022, alleging Medibank breached the Privacy Act 1988 and failed to adequately protect the personal and health information of its current and former customers. million for each contravention.”.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Following complaints from Privacy International and several individuals, CNIL investigated whether Clearview breached the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU’s overarching data privacy and protection law.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The platform’s library includes documents such as non-disclosure agreements, employment agreements, lease agreements, and GDPR and CCPA privacy policies. Other features that the company offers in Australia — such as business set-up software or on-demand lawyer and accounting plans — are not yet available in the U.S.,

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

An Australian court on Monday cleared the way for the country's data privacy regulator to go after Facebook for its alleged role in the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal, rejecting the social media giant's argument that it doesn't do business in Australia as being "divorced from reality."

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JURIST

APRIL 4, 2023

The post Australia bans TikTok on Government devices appeared first on JURIST - News. Several governments have recently imposed internal bans on TikTok, including the United States , Canada , Wisconsin and North Carolina , and the European Commission.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Australia’s first cabinet minister for cyber security, Clare O’Neil recently presented a new plan for the country to become “the world’s most cyber secure country by 2030,” after Australia weathered multiple large-scale hacks in 2022. million customer accounts, Gerard Cockburn reports f or The Western Australia.

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APRIL 30, 2021

Settify has expanded from Australia and the U.K. Whether it’s from a computer or the privacy of a cellphone, clients are out there surfing around, looking for the right fit for the services they need — expect to see continued reliance on intake tools to convert passive browsers into clients.

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Mondaq

JUNE 11, 2022

Employers must be aware of their obligation to protect and later delete their employees' proof of vaccination records.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 22, 2022

Entities can prepare for the new privacy laws by becoming familiar with changes proposed in the Consultation Paper.

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MAY 23, 2024

A California federal magistrate judge overseeing discovery in multidistrict litigation over whether social media platforms' design is addictive ordered TikTok and YouTube on Thursday to give American personal injury plaintiffs certain technical documents regarding the companies' safety features implemented in Europe and Australia, which have tougher (..)

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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2023

This, the legislators argue, violates Montana’s right to privacy. Whereas, Australia , Canada , Denmark , the EU , France , the Netherlands , New Zealand , and Norway only prohibit the app on government-issued devices. ” The proposed ban targets companies that facilitate the use of Tiktok within the state.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

” The Australia-based company partnered with OpenAI to develop the tool, which it said should be particularly useful to businesses, where legal, compliance, information security, and HR teams can use it to provide employees with instant answers about corporate policies and procedures.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 21, 2022

Whether you have a general practice or a specialist clinic, privacy policies for Australian medical practices are a must.

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OCTOBER 14, 2023

This national conference will be held on 21 February 2024 at The University of Sydney Law School in Australia. The event will take place at the Camperdown campus of the University of Sydney Law School in Sydney, Australia, on February 21, 2024 in a hybrid format (in-person or online presentation).

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Mondaq

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Government has proposed two significant privacy reforms - an Online Privacy Bill and an extensive Discussion Paper.

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Mondaq

MAY 18, 2022

Discusses the current state of privacy law. What would a tort of privacy look like? Implications for medical practitioners.

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Mondaq

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If the Queensland government is not using the data, then perhaps residents should have a general right to privacy.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

(To further put the stakes in perspective, the Federal Trade Commission levied a $5 billion fine on Facebook in 2019 on the basis of charges that the social media giant violated a 2012 FTC order by deceiving users about their ability to control the privacy of their personal information.). Enter: Chief Privacy Officers.

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Mondaq

JUNE 12, 2022

There are statutory provisions which govern the collection, use and disclosure of private information in NSW.

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Mondaq

MAY 7, 2022

Privacy audits are important & worth the investment – where to you start? 2 case studies discussed.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Commonwealth and State Privacy Commissioners issued a joint set of privacy principles to support a consistent approach.

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Mondaq

JUNE 11, 2022

The Australian Privacy Foundation has been asked by the NSW Attorney-General's Department to review the PPIP Act.

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Mondaq

JUNE 11, 2022

If the privacy breach falls under NSW or Commonwealth laws, there are statutory remedies available.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 29, 2021

When collecting employee information, and recording it, businesses must be able to justify it as "reasonably necessary".

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JUNE 6, 2024

The consequences: in 2021, a patent application surfaced in Australia that appears to have been derived from Neuropublic’s confidential disclosure. This prior art publication now jeopardizes Neuropublic’s ability to obtain patent protection on its invention, undermining years of research and development investment.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 6, 2022

On 23 June 2022, the Lisbon Guidelines on Privacy , drawn up by the ILA Committee on the Protection of Privacy in Private International and Procedural Law , were formally endorsed by the International Law Association at the 80th ILA Biennial Conference, hosted in Lisbon (Portugal). Burkhard Hess chaired the Committee, and Prof.

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Mondaq

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Tribunal ruled a local council breached Information Privacy Principles when a complainant's identity was made public.

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LawSites

APRIL 12, 2023

An Australia-based company whose primary product is a no-code automation platform for legal professionals, Josef has partnered with OpenAI to develop the tool, which is currently using GPT-4, the latest version of Open AI’s large language model (LLM). In Flynn’s demonstration, he used a parental leave policy.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

On Saturday, Australia’s Minister for Home Affairs and Cyber Security Clare O’Neil announced the formation of a multi-agency task force to combat cyber crime. A report from the Australian Cyber Security Centre earlier this month stated that cyber crime rose 13 percent in Australia from July 2021 and July 2022.

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LawSites

MARCH 14, 2023

Josef , the Australia-based no-code automation platform for legal professionals, is next week launching the beta version of a new product, Josef Q, that uses advanced AI to transform policies and regulations — such as those pertaining to privacy, data security, HR and procurement — into digital Q&A tools.

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