The Latest Breaking News from OAIC

Australia’s privacy commissioner has warned she’s ready to take action against businesses that use AI without making privacy a top priority.

Exclusive: Breaches linked to ‘social engineering’ rise by more than 440% after nine reported last year

Senator Nick McKim says company’s ‘opaque’ SRAT security assessment tool ‘has severe implications for fundamental human rights’

Incident comes as data shows government sector breaches mostly caused by human error, not criminal acts

Australian police seem only to use new surveillance technologies to court scandal. In the US, one city council is taking action to win back public trust.

Clearview AI said it can’t stop using Australians’ data for its facial recognition software because it can’t tell who’s Australian.

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner launches inquiry into platform’s use of marketing pixels to track people’s online habits

The most significant recommendation in the Senate inquiry report on the functionality of the Commonwealth FOI system is this: move the federal Freedom of Information (FOI) function from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s Office (OAIC) to the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s Office.

Australian Clinical Labs hack alleged to have resulted in more than 200,000 health records and credit card details being published on dark web