Keyword "privacy laws" - List of latest news (34 results)

21/04 Most Aussie outfit ever spotted at Coachella

One of the world’s most revered music festivals is about to kick off for its final day, but it's the outfits of two Australians that has everyone talking.

16/03 Who owns digital data about you? South African legal scholar weighs up property and privacy rights

If data ownership is not clearly established, it could stifle innovation and investment.

21/02 Google, Meta execs blast Europe over strict AI regulation as Big Tech ups the ante

Executives at Google and Meta said that Europe's artificial intelligence industry is being held back by excessive regulation.

19/02 Ring doorbell owners told to abide by key regulation or face £100,000 fine

Individuals and businesses could be liable for a huge payment if rules are not adhered to

15/01 From Gmail to Word, your privacy settings and AI are entering into a new relationship

If there were ever a time to understand your online data privacy settings, it's now in the AI era.

17/12 Facebook-parent Meta settles with Australia's privacy watchdog over Cambridge Analytica lawsuit

Meta Platforms has agreed to a A$50 million settlement ($31.85 million), Australia's privacy watchdog said on Tuesday.

21/11 How AI regulation in California, Colorado and beyond could threaten U.S. tech dominance

California's recently vetoed state bill on safe and secure artificial intelligence systems could put the state's status as a technology hub at risk.

13/10 Trump or Harris? Here are the 2024 stakes for airlines, banks, EVs, health care and more

With the U.S. election less than a month away, the country and its corporate sectors are staring down two drastically different options.

11/10 What internet data brokers have on you — and how you can start to get it back

Every click, purchase, and "like" you make online is harvested, packaged, and sold for profit, making personal data a valuable commodity for data brokers.

04/09 US supermarket scene will stun Aussies

It’s 6pm at Trader Joe’s in midtown Manhattan and there’s a line snaking around the supermarket all the way to the escalator entrance.

17/08 A new consumer privacy battle is underway as tech gadgets capture our brain waves

As consumer technology capturing brain data proliferates under the radar of medical device regulation, Colorado has changed its privacy act to include biology.

07/06 Amazon, Best Buy, Google may soon sell home smart devices, from door cams to TVs, speakers and appliances, with 'hacker-safe' label

The FCC is working to launch the Cyber Trust program, though it's delayed, to provide electronics manufacturers a hacker-safe 'seal of approval' on products.

15/05 Alex was doxxed while playing Call of Duty. What happened next was a living nightmare for him and his family

For up to four weeks, Alex and his family received up to 50 food deliveries a day after his address was shared by someone he had an argument with while playing Call of Duty online. Here's what to do if, like Alex, you've been doxxed.

23/03 How to stop your internet-connected car from sharing and maybe even selling your driving data

With all new car models headed for internet-connectivity, driver data is a new frontier in consumer privacy risks and protection efforts.

15/03 Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Global must face U.S. investor lawsuit over IPO

Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Global is being sued in a U.S. court for allegedly defrauding investors by hiding a Chinese government order to delay its 2021 IPO.

13/03 Could a TikTok Ban Actually Happen?

The push to curtail the platform has bipartisan support, but it faces major hurdles.

12/03 Former U.S. official's work for Chinese client stirs concern over disclosure loopholes

A former U.S. official's letter raises concerns in the law that allow lawyers to avoid disclosing their advocacy for companies possibly subject to sanctions.

27/02 ‘Gone mad’: Aussies fed up with hi-tech surveillance systems rolled out at Coles and Woolworths

Australia’s major supermarkets have been accused of treating customer like thieves by rapidly expanding hi-tech surveillance inside stores, new analysis claims.

11/02 Bombshell claim on Maddie suspect

The prime suspect in the disappearance of Maddie McCann allegedly confessed to a friend and petty criminal the British toddler “didn’t scream” after she was ripped from her parent’s holiday home, never to be seen again.

11/02 World leader’s sex abuse shock

Hungary’s first female president, Katalin Novak, has announced her resignation over a pardon granted to a man convicted of covering up sexual abuse in a children’s home.

09/02 AI might be reading your Slack messages: 'A lot of this becomes thought crime'

Aware uses AI to analyze companies' employee messages across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other communications services.

03/12 Can an AI chatbot be convicted of an illegal wiretap? A case against Gap's Old Navy may answer that

Can an artificial intelligence illegally wiretap consumers? A California lawsuit against Old Navy may set a precedent in AI privacy.

30/10 Facebook and Instagram get ad-free subscription service in Europe

Meta said the subscription offers were to comply with the "evolving" European regulations after it was slapped with a fine this year over data law breaches.

07/10 ‘My employer is tracking my laptop, even when I’m not at work’

Welcome to Sisters In Law, news.com.au’s weekly column solving all of your legal problems. This week, our resident lawyers and real-life sisters Alison and Jillian Barrett from Maurice Blackburn explain whether your work can track your computer.

27/09 Major new privacy laws

New laws will prohibit companies from targeting ads at children and selling their private data under the most sweeping reforms made to Australia’s privacy act in decades.

14/09 Bold Coles, Woolies measures ‘unacceptable’

Australia’s two biggest supermarkets are going to increasingly drastic lengths to fight back against stealing and violent behaviour in their stores – but experts are saying it could lead to a sense of “distrust” and “trauma” in customers.

07/09 Painful legal requirement scrapped

Australians signing statutory declarations will no longer need to use pen and paper as the legal process moves “into the digital age”.

26/07 Reason TikTok banned 17 million kids

TikTok kicks 190,000 users off its platform a day for lying about being older than 13 years old, a senate inquiry has been told.

06/07 30 million sign up to ‘Twitter killer’

Spare a thought for multi-billionaire Elon Musk this morning.

14/06 Bridget Archer and Andrew Bragg call on investigation into Brittany Higgins leak

Two Liberal MPs have broken ranks to demand a police investigation into the leaking of Brittany Higgins’ private text messages to the media.

18/05 Why you could be forced to pay for Facebook

After decades of free access, Facebook users may be in for a shock.

02/05 New move to protect personal data

A standalone privacy commissioner will be appointed to deal with the growing threats to data security to protect the personal information of millions of Australians.

16/02 Big payday for future data hack victims

Victims of future data breaches, similar to last year’s Optus and Medibank hacks, would be able to sue for compensation under a proposed sweeping overhaul of the nation’s privacy laws.

15/02 Report flags EU-style privacy laws

Toughening up reporting obligations for data breaches and allowing Australians the ‘right to be forgotten’ online are proposed in the review into the country’s Privacy Act.