Digital Privacy

eSafety said over-blocking and over-compliance were certainly not the outcomes it wanted from the proposed digital duty of care.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has also released recommendations after the OpenAI hack of Australia's Medicare system.

Phishing tools, including spoof emails and webpages can be produced with ease at a professional level with the ...

Parliament has approved two amendments to the Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026, introduced by ...

Australian authorities have been tasked with finding better ways to verify traveller IDs with officials considering handing over ...

The Australian Signals Directorate, the peak intelligence body intercepting cybersecurity threats, said its website had been affected.

The committee also heard safety measures designed to stop AI from helping plan terror attacks were quickly removed.

Three cybersecurity experts have been appointed to lead an independent taskforce to help Australia address AI-related threats.

The draft law would let the Commissioner use fake identities, which it calls "sock puppet" accounts, to test ...

Julie Inman Grant said the proposed law was about determining whether tech companies' claims about product safety were ...

The US activist says parliamentary staffers were unaware of provisions allowing the eSafety Commissioner to create fictitious social ...

American academic and investigator warns proposed online safety laws could give authorities sweeping powers to monitor and censor ...

Harmful online experiences and platform features may matter more for young people's mental health than how long they ...

Big Tech firms also faced questions from MPs about the amount of tax they pay locally.

Peter Malinauskas has ordered a Royal Commission into AI which commenced work on Oct. 1

AMA Victoria asks what would happen if an AI agent accessed clinical records, as OpenAI's strategy chief prepares ...

'One way or another, our data is going to be stored, and I don't want it stored overseas,' ...

Some Australian corporations are responding by putting out tenders to move their data back onshore.

OpenAI will fund government work through credits from a US$1 billion fund which subsidises work on essential services ...

'We would be keen to do what we can by the end of the year if we're able ...

Only 22 percent of surveyed government entities met the targeted level across all eight key cyber security measures ...

Anthony Albanese said no personal information is believed to have been accessed at this stage and that the ...

Randwick Council is considering banning smart glasses at Coogee, Clovelly and Maroubra beaches over privacy concerns.

An expert says hundreds of existing Telstra sites could handle AI computing.

The U.S. government said it opposed foreign measures that result in extraterritorial censorship of Americans’ protected speech online.

ASIO chief Mike Burgess warns the CCP is Australia’s top hacking threat, saying it could shut down the ...

Liberal MP Andrew Hastie said the incident demonstrated how 'wanting' the chatbot was in its ability to uphold ...