Region: Australia
Top Australian court allows Facebook case to proceed
Australia’s High Court has revoked Facebook’s leave to appeal against enforcement linked to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, following changes in laws relevant to overseas services.
07 March 2023
Australia reforms propose GDPR-style erasure and litigation rights
Australia’s Privacy Act review report has proposed introducing a right to erasure and bolstering individuals’ ability to litigate, as well as changes to regulatory powers and notification requirements.
16 February 2023
Google wins Australian dark pattern case
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has had its case against Google thrown out after a judge rejected the regulator’s claims that the tech giant had misled consumers into agreeing to hand over personal data.
09 December 2022
Australia passes privacy update
Australian lawmakers have cleared privacy legislation that will increase maximum fines, hand the country’s regulator extra investigative powers and increase its ability to undertake extraterritorial enforcement.
29 November 2022
ACCC recommends DMA-like legislation for Australia
Australia’s competition authority has recommended the introduction of a data-sharing mechanism similar to the EU’s Digital Markets Act, but the regulator has said any change would have to wait until the country’s privacy laws are overhauled.
15 November 2022
Australian regulator gets Optus-linked budget boost as fines set to increase
Australia’s privacy regulator has received an additional A$5.5 million (€3.5 million) to fund its Optus breach investigation, and may be granted even higher fining powers than had previously been planned.
28 October 2022
Optus faces parallel Australian data breach investigations
Two Australian regulators are investigating the data handling practices of Optus following a breach that affected 9.8 million customers.
12 October 2022
Optus breach highlights gaps in Australian regulation
The Optus data breach has placed the information of 9.8 million people at risk, leaving stakeholders weighing their seemingly limited legal options.
30 September 2022
Google agrees to A$60 million fine
Google has agreed to pay the Australian consumer protection regulator A$60 million (€41.5 million) and overhaul its compliance programme after a court found that it misled users over its location data collection practices.
12 August 2022
Zoom hit with international privacy class action
Zoom is facing another class action lawsuit over its app’s collection and sharing of personal data, this time from users based in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
01 June 2022