Telecommunications, Media And Technology (TMT) Law Update – Volume 48

Judgments

Alleged CDR breach by Bank of Queensland

On 13 July 2022, the ACCC issued its first infringement notice for a breach of the Consumer Data Right (CDR). As we have previously reported, the CDR was initially rolled out to the major banks in July 2020, and then to all other banks in 2021. The Bank of Queensland paid a penalty of $133,200 after ACCC alleged it had breached the CDR by failing to be in a position to share data for financial products by the deadline of 1 July 2021, the service in fact being unavailable until 13 December 2021.

Parking dispute did not lead to privacy breach

On 22 July 2022, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal rejected an assertion that a local council parking enforcement officer breached the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic) by revealing the name of an individual who had made a complaint about a car parked across her driveway: Shaw v Yarra City Council [2022] VCAT 811. The complainant alleged that