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Privacy Awareness Week Update
To coincide with Privacy Awareness Week, the OAIC has released a number of business resources. This Insight considers the key implications for stakeholders. ...
Your 'Metadata' as Personal Information
In a decision published this week the Australian Privacy Commissioner has clarified that metadata may be personal information when an organisation has the capacity and resources to link that information to an individual Partner Michael Pattison Associate Priyanka Nair and Law Graduate Leah Wickman ...
Unexpected risks of the IoT revolution: Cyber security in medical devices
In late August 2017 the US Food and Drug Administration recalled 465000 Abbott Laboratories pacemakers due to cyber security vulnerabilities Although this was the first time that the FDA had recalled a medical device because of cyber concerns they have been alive to the significant risk that a cyber ...
What you need to know about mandatory data breach notification
In response to the rising number of cyberattacks, new legislation has been introduced that proposes a mandatory notification regime that will take effect from February next year. ...
Privacy Commissioner reports on Department of Immigration and Border Protection's data breach
The Australian Privacy Commissioner has released a report into the Department of Immigration and Border Protection having breached the privacy of asylum seekers in February 2014 Partner Michael Pattison and Associate Priyanka Nair report on the Commissioners findings and the lessons for all ...
Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation launches to confront the future of law
Allens has joined forces with UNSW to tackle the increasingly complex challenges presented by digital transformation to the legal system with the launch of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law & ...
Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation launches research streams
Allens and UNSW have officially launched the Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation, unveiling 10 new research streams to tackle legal issues surrounding data, artificial intelligence, privacy ...
Special Report: Understanding the opportunities and navigating the legal frameworks of distributed ledger technology and blockchain
Authored by a multidisciplinary team from Allens Blockchain Reaction is designed to assist business stakeholders decision makers and in-house counsel across a variety of sectors to understand the technology and how it is being used as well as navigate the regulatory and legal opportunities and ...
NSW to go it alone on a tort of privacy?
A New South Wales legislative committee has released a report following an inquiry into remedies for serious invasions of privacy in New South Wales In an unexpected and controversial move the report recommends that the NSW Government take the lead by introducing a statutory cause of action for ...
The hack back: The legality of retaliatory hacking
In circumstances where government departments and law enforcement agencies are unable or unwilling to effectively respond to cybercrime, organisations are increasingly questioning whether or not they have or ought to have a a right to 'hack back' as an offensive retaliatory measure. ...