CyberBeat is a community driven, educational and informative 15 minute podcast keeping you up to date with news and analysis on what’s happening with the internet in Australia and how it relates to you.
CyberBeat #106
September 2023
FEATURE: This week public interest technologist Rob Braxman talks about end-to-end encryption.
What really is the legal situation in Australia and why are most privacy policies perhaps considered illegal under the Australian Privacy Principles? Why are Privacy Policies long, confusing, and filled with legal jargon. Are our only options to "take it or leave it?” The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and 11 of its international data protection and privacy counterparts have released a joint statement to address the issue of data scraping on social media platforms and other publicly accessible sites. This week we take at look at the position paper just released by the eSafety Commissioner - New industry recommendations to curb harms of generative AI.
Latest CyberBeat News
TikTok fined 345 million euros for breaching children's privacy laws in the EU
20 September 2023
It is the biggest fine to date TikTok has received from regulators.
Google to Pay $93m for Misleading Users on Location Tracking
20 September 2023
Tech giant ‘continued to collect and store a user’s location data’ even if users turned off their location history.
Gov to curtail one-to-many face matching by law enforcement
20 September 2023
The government is having a second go at legislation for identity and facial matching services, one that will still enable central identity data pools to exist but place heavier restrictions on usage.
Signing contracts may soon become obsolete
14 September 2023
The federal government has announced it is taking statutory declarations into the digital age, saying it will accept electronic signatures and video link witnessing from next year.
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