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Ex-Vocus chair indicted on insider trading charges
White Collar 2023-05-12 12:36 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Former Vocus chairman Vaughan Bowen has been indicted on insider trading charges, five months after prosecutors dropped the same charges after a contested committal hearing.

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Facial recognition platform Clearview broke privacy laws by scraping images, AAT says
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2023-05-10 2:35 pm By Sam Matthews

US facial recognition company Clearview breached Australian privacy laws by trawling the web for photos of Australians for use by law enforcement agencies, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has found.

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TechnologyOne halts trading after cyberattack
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2023-05-10 4:21 pm By Sam Matthews

One of the country’s largest software companies has entered a trading halt after detecting unauthorised third-party access to its internal IT system.

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Nuix class action to go ahead despite ASIC case
Class Actions 2023-05-02 3:58 pm By Sam Matthews

A shareholder class action against software company Nuix will go ahead as planned, after a stay application threatened to put the proceeding on ice pending the outcome of a separate case brought by ASIC.

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Canva quashes opposition to patent application extension after lawyer mess-up
Intellectual Property 2023-05-01 1:56 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Graphics design platform Canva has overcome opposition to it being granted further time to apply to patent an invention for generating websites, after IP Australia found its US patent attorneys  made an “error or omission” by failing to track expiration dates for registering the patent.

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Directed Electronics appeals partial loss in case over ‘reprehensible’ trade secrets theft
Intellectual Property 2023-04-14 11:38 pm By Christine Caulfield

Car electronics company Directed Electronics has challenged a ruling that partially dismissed its case over the alleged misappropriation of trade secrets by a former manager, who was found to have pocketed $3.6 million in commissions through a secret agreement with rival Hanhwa.

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ChatGPT faces landmark defamation claim by Reserve Bank whistleblower
Defamation 2023-04-05 1:28 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT is facing a landmark defamation claim by Hepburn shire council mayor Brian Hood, alleging it incorrectly identified him as someone facing charges in a foreign bribery scandal rather than his role as whistleblower.

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‘Absolutely ludicrous’: Judge pans witness numbers in ISG sex discrimination case
Employment 2023-04-03 11:59 am By Christine Caulfield

The judge overseeing a sex discrimination and harassment lawsuit by the only female partner at global technology research company Information Services Group has lashed out at the parties for proposing to call a parade of 16 witnesses and estimating the trial would take three weeks.

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Developers added to Apple, Google class actions despite conflict concerns
Class Actions 2023-03-23 4:38 pm By Cindy Cameronne

App developers can be added as group members in class actions against Apple and Google alleging they engaged in anti-competitive conduct in operating their app stores, despite Apple’s concerns that the law firm running the case will owe conflicting duties. 

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Facebook to cop penalty in ACCC case over ‘misleading’ data protection app
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2023-03-10 3:20 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Facebook will face a penalty in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s case alleging it misled consumers by representing that its discontinued Onavo Protect mobile app would keep users’ personal activity data private.

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