Australia is considering whether to adopt modern slavery legislation, similar to that found in the United Kingdom (UK) and California.
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”.
Trade between Singapore and Australia is strong as the value of two-way goods trade was AUD 16.2 billion in 2015. Both countries took steps to make it even stronger when they completed the 3rd review and signed updates to the Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement on 13 October 2016.
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
Draft bill creates additional obligations to protect networks and facilities, and ASIO is intended to have a “key role” in implementing security On 26 June 2015, the Attorney-General and Minister for Communication released the government’s proposal for security reforms in the telecommunications sector in the form of a draft of…
Julie Bishop’s recent visit to Iran – the first by an Australian foreign minister in over a decade – marks an important step in the development of relations between the two countries. Coming just a few weeks after the signing of the nuclear framework agreement between Iran and the P5+1,…
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…
Australia imposed targeted financial sanctions and travel bans relating to Russia against designated persons and entities in June and September 2014. Expanded sanctions were announced in September 2014. Following a consultation period, the expanded regime has just taken effect. The expanded sanctions restrict: export to and import from Russia of…
The Australian Government has released for comment the draft regulations and specification instrument to implement expanded sanctions relating to Russia and Ukraine (announced 1 September 2014). Submissions on the draft instruments are invited by 9 December 2014. Details of the draft instruments can be found here. Businesses need to understand…