The Latest Breaking News from OAIC

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

Four-year appeal to obtain information on secret trawling of journalists’ data by law enforcement agencies continues

Australia’s privacy commissioner Angelene Falk says the lack of fines is part of her office’s ‘regulatory strategy’.

Law firm says ‘complex manual review’ needed to assess what information was involved and to identify those affected

Angelene Falk responds to Leo Hardiman’s extraordinary accusations to a Senate inquiry which he claimed led to his resignation

In court documents Meta says parts of the case brought against it by Australia’s privacy regulator are ‘embarrassing’ and ‘defective’

Former senator appeals federal court ruling that information watchdog’s lengthy delays were not unreasonable as it was bound by funding