The Australian Information Commissioner has found 16 government agencies have approved the use of messaging apps like Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp for government business.
A self-represented customer of Latitude Financial has lost his bid to challenge a decision throwing out his data breach lawsuit against the non-bank lender after he defaulted on court orders.
Facebook owner Meta has agreed to pay $50 million to settle action by the privacy commissioner over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The OAIC has found two companies connected to wealth guru Dominique Grubisa breached privacy laws by scraping data from court websites for a client lead list used to target vulnerable people.
Bunnings has been found to have breached privacy laws with the use of facial recognition technology in its stores, but the hardware chain has vowed to seek a review of the decision.
Australian Clinical Labs may seek to strike out part of the OAIC’s case over a 2022 data breach, arguing it would unfairly allow the watchdog to allege both single and multiple contraventions of privacy law.
Optus has struck back at ACMA’s claim that a cyberattack that exposed the information of around 10 million customers was not a “highly sophisticated” operation.
Australian Clinical Labs, which is facing regulatory action over a 2022 data breach, is fighting the information commissioner’s claim that it breached privacy laws 21.5 million times.
Medibank has denied breaching privacy rules in response to the regulator’s case over a 2022 cyber attack, but has admitted sensitive data was hacked in part because its network lacked multi-factor authentication.
The privacy regulator was alerted to hundreds of data breaches in the first half of 2024, the highest number in three and a half years, a new report shows.