In brief The Australian Government has announced a range of short term and long term measures to assist Australian media businesses in light of COVID-19 and its impact on the sector. In addition to new industry relief measures, the Government and key regulators such as the Australian Competition and Consumer…
The boundary between consumer protection and privacy regulation is being scrutinised and challenged by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), as the collection and use of customer information plays an increasingly important role in customer service and profitability. This week, the ACCC commenced proceedings against the online health booking…
The ACCC’s Digital Platforms Inquiry Final Report has been released with 23 recommendations for wide-ranging regulatory change in areas including competition and consumer law, privacy, copyright and media regulation. This alert outlines the key points of the Final Report for consideration. Given the potential impact of these recommendations on the…
Australia’s export control rules for tangibles have been amended to more closely align with the regime for intangible supplies.
On 19 October the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016was introduced into the House of Representatives. If passed, the new law will require entities subject to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) to notify data subjects and the Information Commissioner of an “eligible data breach”.
The Australian Privacy Commissioner has released a joint report with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada regarding the data breach in 2015 that occurred to a dating website operator’s system
Australia is one step closer to a mandatory data breach notification scheme. If implemented the new law will require businesses and Federal Government bodies to notify serious data breaches to the Australian Information Commissioner and affected individuals.
With the year drawing to a close, it seems an opportune time to take stock of some of the key globally relevant data protection developments in 2015 and extract a few trends which are set to continue in 2016.
The Court of Justice of the European Union, following the opinion of the Advocate General, invalidated European Commission Decision 2000/520 dated July 27, 2000, which allowed transfers of personal data to US companies that self-certified under the US/EU Safe Harbor Program.
The Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2014 (new law) passed both houses of parliament on Thursday 26 March 2015. The new law amends the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 (the Act) to introduce a mandatory data retention scheme (Scheme) for carriers and carriage service providers (Service…