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Australian Privacy Reform Series Refresher: What Are These Reforms?
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Anticipated Tightened Data Privacy Regulations: Raid on Worldcoin

Australian Privacy Reform Series Refresher: What Are These Reforms?

Aug 13 2024
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By Cameron Abbott, Rob Pulham, and Stephanie Mayhew

In 2023 the Attorney-General’s Department released the “Privacy Act Review Report” (Review Report), which considered whether the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and its enforcement mechanisms are fit for purpose in an environment where Australians now live much of their lives online and their information is collected and used for a myriad of purposes in the digital economy.

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Anticipated Tightened Data Privacy Regulations: Raid on Worldcoin

Feb 26 2024
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By Paul Haswell and Sarah Kwong

In late January 2024, Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog, the Personal Data Privacy Commission (“PCPD”) raided six premises of Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency initiative co-founded by Sam Altman, that requires an iris scan from clients for identification purposes and also for earning tokens. The PCPD conducted an investigation into Worldcoin’s operations, suspecting that its sensitive personal data (i.e. iris information) collection practices might infringe the Personal Data Privacy Ordinance (Cap. 486).

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