Information Technology

The past twelve months have seen significant activity by the Commonwealth government in its efforts to progress reforms to the regulatory framework of Australia’s critical infrastructure to uplift the security and resilience of essential services in Australia.

A recent determination of the Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner (Commissioner) has found that Clearview AI interfered with the privacy of Australians by engaging in the practice of scraping images of individual’s faces from publicly available websites, such...

On 25 October 2021, the Australian Attorney-General’s Department released the long awaited Privacy Act Review Discussion Paper for public consultation. The Discussion Paper proposes wide-ranging and significant reforms to Australia’s Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

On 25 October 2021, the Australian government released the exposure draft of the Privacy Legislation Amendment (Enhancing Online Privacy and Other Measures) Bill 2021 (Cth) (Online Privacy Bill).

The Commonwealth government has recently released its Ransomware Action Plan in response to an increasing incidence of ransomware attacks in Australia.

In Commissioner initiated investigation into 7-Eleven Stores Pty Ltd (Privacy) [2021] AICmr 50 the Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner (Commissioner) has found that 7-Eleven Stores Pty Ltd (7-Eleven) interfered with the privacy of individuals when it collected...

The Commonwealth Digital Transformation Agency has recently released an exposure draft of the Trusted Digital Identity Bill 2021 (Cth) and associated materials for public consultation.

Following its review of the Critical Infrastructure Bill, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security has recommended dividing the proposed legislation into two separate Bills

A legislation tracker to monitor the progress of key legislative developments in Australian cybersecurity law reform.

Practical Law Commercial have released a new Practice note, The Assistance and Access Act 2018 (Cth).

Practical Law Commercial have released a new Legal update, OAIC's Notifiable Data Breaches Report for January to June 2021 warns of increasing ransomware threat in Australia.

Amendments to formalise electronic execution of documents, virtual meetings and electronic communications and continuous disclosure reform have taken effect