Data privacy

A new report on Australia’s 15 most popular car brands reveals extensive privacy concerns, including unauthorised sharing with third parties.

Vice president of the Privacy Sandbox initiative says the plan has changed after feedback from various stakeholders, such as regulators and advertisers.

Tech firm Google has agreed to settle the privacy lawsuit but still strongly disagrees with the plaintiffs’ “legal and factual characterizations.”

Speed camera network operations are being tendered to private firms, with the expectation ticket numbers will triple to 3 million by 2030.

The U.S. government is working on a new system to enable the identification and tracking of individuals and motor vehicles across multiple video sources.

The Commonwealth Bank supports the digital ID rollout but has maintained that it must remain voluntary and be secure.

The government has been concerned about the ‘high risk’ application of AI and its impact on privacy.

‘I’m worried that they’ll do it for other things too,” Libertarian Party MP David Limbrick said.

Legislation will be introduced ‘end of this year’ or ‘early next year’

With the ham-fisted federal government’s move to outlaw cheques, will the next step be to remove cash transactions?

Major business group warns changes will put pressure on small business owners.

In 2022, Google agreed to 5,525 requests from Australian authorities for information on user accounts.