On 16 February 2023, the Australian Attorney-General's Department released the highly anticipated Privacy Act Review Report (PARR), the next step in the Australian Government's comprehensive review of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act Review). The PARR makes 116 proposals for...
New South Wales is the first state or territory in Australia to introduce a mandatory data breach notification scheme for its public sector agencies following the assent of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Amendment Act 2022 (NSW) on 28 November 2022.
On 25 October 2022 the Victorian Attorney-General requested that the Victorian Law Reform Commission (VLRC) review the meaning of the term “recklessness” in the Victorian Crimes Act 1958. Any change to the standard of recklessness will be reflected in the commentary to The Laws of...
In the wake of recent serious data breaches in Australia, the Federal government has introduced a bill amending the Privacy Act 1988, the Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010 and the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005 to increase penalties up to 50 million.
With new mandatory cyber incident reporting obligations applying from 8 July 2022, these resources will help you get across the new regime of obligations for owners and operators of critical infrastructure assets.
Practical Law Commercial have released new Data protection and privacy resources to help your organisation conduct effective and efficient privacy impact assessments.
On 23 January 2022, the Online Safety Act 2021 (Cth) (OSA 2021) and the Online Safety (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2021 (Cth) ) (OSTPCAA 2021) commenced. The new legislation introduces wide-ranging and significant reforms to Australia’s online safety.
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...
The allocation of director identification numbers (DINs) by the Australian Business Registry Services (ABRS) commenced on 1 November 2021. In this Practice note, the Practical Law Commercial team consider the data protection and privacy issues relevant to both directors and companies...
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