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Western Australian local governments face new obligations under the Privacy and Responsible Information Sharing Act 2024, which introduces Information Privacy Principles and mandatory serious data-breach reporting. How should councils prepare their governance frameworks, policies, and incident-response capabilities to meet these requirements by the July 2026 and January 2027 deadlines?

The Australian Government's proposed digital duty of care reforms would extend online safety obligations far beyond social media platforms to encompass any business operating websites, digital platforms, or AI-enabled tools. Rather than simply responding to complaints, businesses would need to proactively identify foreseeable risks and implement safeguards, with substantial penalties for non-compliance reaching up to $109.2 million for companies. The exposure draft introduces a fundamental shift from reacti

The Australian Government's exposure draft proposes a proactive, systems-based digital duty of care for online service providers, requiring them to ensure a 'safe online environment' so far as reasonably practicable.

Australia's digital regulatory landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation, with the proposed digital duty of care joining a complex web of reforms including Privacy Act amendments...

The Administrative Review Tribunal's decision on Bunnings' use of Facial Recognition Technology offers critical insights for Victorian government agencies collecting sensitive information through new technologies. This analysis examines how privacy governance failures, inadequate notification practices, and insufficient transparency led to regulatory breaches, and explores what public sector organisations must do to strengthen their compliance frameworks when implementing surveillance systems or collecting

Australia's expanded Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing regime now captures lawyers, accountants, real estate professionals and other service providers, bringing with it unexpected Privacy Act obligations that apply regardless of business size or turnover. The question facing these newly regulated entities is whether their client onboarding and data handling practices comply not only with AML/CTF requirements...