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Australia’s Model Clauses provide framework for AI procurement

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On 17 March 2025, the Australian Government published Model Clauses to help government purchasers manage vendor relationships when procuring AI technology based systems and services. The Model Clauses cover issues relevant to...more

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Australia’s regulatory crackdown targets bribery, money laundering and cybercrime

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New bribery offenses in Australia now make it easier for authorities to prosecute organizations and require companies to exercise greater oversight and controls. Australia’s regulators remain active in greenwashing and other...more

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DSIR Deeper Dive: Absent Legislation, Privacy Regulators Offer Guidance on AI

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By now, many of us are using AI, advising others about how to use AI, and waiting for some legislative miracle to give us some guardrails for what we can or cannot be doing with AI. A lot of effort has been put into tracking...more

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AI Legal News Summer Roundup: Edition 3

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Welcome to the third edition of our AI Legal News Summer Roundup! After five class actions were filed between June 28 and July 11 (as reported on in our first edition of this series), on July 21, another class action lawsuit...more

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Re-defining the basics of Australian privacy law

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In support of Privacy Awareness Week and this year’s theme of ‘back to basics’, we provide you with an in-depth analysis of the key proposals that arise from the Attorney General’s Final Privacy Act Review Report (Report)...more

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Australian Government Serious About Data Privacy: Substantial Increases in Fines and Enhanced Regulatory Powers

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In Short - The Situation: Following a number of high-profile cyber incidents resulting in significant data breaches, the Australian Government has doubled down on its efforts to strengthen privacy laws and cybersecurity...more

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Compounding Consequences for Australian Health Insurer Following Breach

Medibank, one of Australia’s largest private health insurers, detected a ransomware attack in October 2022.  The attackers, believed to be part of a criminal organization based in Russia, exfiltrated approximately 9.7 million...more

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New proposed privacy rules for global companies conducting business in Australia

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The Australian Government has released draft legislation aimed at ensuring Australia’s privacy law remains well equipped to tackle the next digital era. The exposure draft of the Privacy Legislation Amendment (Enhancing...more

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As States and Nations Continue to Enact Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation, Pressure Mounts on the U.S. to Pass a Competing...

Global data privacy legislation has steadily advanced over the past several years, with one of the most comprehensive and well-known laws being the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), governing personal data...more

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Accountability for Cybersecurity in Australia—A Major Regulatory and Litigation Risk

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There are showers, there are squalls, and there are storms. The growth in cybersecurity attacks in Australia, as in much of the world, is a storm and Australian companies need to batten down the hatches. In the period from 1...more

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Data Breach Class Actions in Australia

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Australia has started to observe a rise in the number of data breach class actions being investigated and filed, although there has not yet been a successful data breach class action there. A range of factors are at play...more

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Key Lessons From Australia's Notifiable Data Breach Scheme

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The Situation: The Notifiable Data Breach scheme, introduced by amendments to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), requires an assessment when an entity suspects that there may have been loss of, unauthorised access to, or...more

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Non-profit Activists’ Strategic Pursuit of Alleged GDPR Violations Spurs Compliance Developments

• Non-profit organizations are testing companies’ GDPR compliance through targeted requests for information and other means and are filing complaints against allegedly non-compliant companies. • Main areas for non-profit...more

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Jones Day Global Privacy & Data Security Update | Vol. 19

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On the heels of the European Union's General Data Protection law, which went into effect in May 2018, California has enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA")—the result of an 11th-hour compromise between...more

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Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 16

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UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - United States and China Renew Promise Not to Hack - On October 4, U.S. and Chinese officials agreed to not engage in targeted hacking. Per a...more

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Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 14

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New York Attorney General Announces Record Number of Data Breach Notices in 2016 - On March 21, 2017, the New York Attorney General's Office announced that it received 1,300 reported data breaches in 2016—a 60 percent...more

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Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 13

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On December 28, 2016, the New York Department of Financial Services ("DFS") released a revised version of a proposed regulation that would require banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions...more

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Australia Introduces Mandatory Data Breach Notification Scheme

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On 13 February 2017, the Australian Senate passed into law the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016. This law amends the primary privacy and data protection legislation in Australia, Privacy Act 1988 (Cth),...more

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