By: Cameron Abbott, Rob Pulham, and Stephanie Mayhew
This week the Australian Government released its Final Report on the Age Assurance Technology Trial. Its findings will underpin the coming into effect of new rules to implement the social media minimum age limit laws, required to be in place by December 10.
Read MoreBy: Cameron Abbott, Rob Pulham, Stephanie Mayhew and Emre Cakmakcioglu
In Australia, last week was the 2025 Privacy Awareness Week (PAW), with this year’s theme ‘Privacy – it’s everyone’s business’. Among other things in PAW, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) produced a Privacy Foundations self-assessment tool, which provides a privacy maturity score on the basis of tenets such as Accountability, Transparency, Collection and Data breach management. The tool, and PAW more broadly emphasise that privacy is not just about compliance, but good business and building trust. NSW, Vic and QLD state governments have each run parallel PAW events.
Read MoreBy Dr. Thomas Nietsch and Andreas Müller
On July 24, 2024, the OLG Hamm ruled that claims for moral damages under Art. 82 GDPR are generally assignable (case number: 11 U 69/23).
Read MoreBy Cameron Abbott, Rob Pulham, Stephanie Mayhew and Jordan Booth
Cybernews has reported on its researchers’ discovery of what could be the largest leaked password compilation of all time, with a record 9,948,575,739 plaintext passwords in a file called “rockyou2024.txt” (see article).
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