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Privacy Act review: are changes required?

Employment & Workplace Relations| 06 Nov 2020

Privacy Act review: are changes required?

A number of significant changes have been made to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) since 2000, including the extension of the Act into the private sector in 2001 and the introduction of the Australian Privacy Principles in 2014. But how effective were those changes?

Social media and shopping converge: buyer beware

Corporate & Commercial| 25 Aug 2020

Social media and shopping converge: buyer beware

In this article, we consider the legal issues for retailers hoping to take advantage of the new convergence of ‘social’ and ‘shopping’.

Online privacy: what’s at risk?

Cybersecurity| 01 Jun 2020

Online privacy: what’s at risk?

Hall & Wilcox has been working with cybersecurity company CTRL Group on a number of privacy-related initiatives. This article is co-written by Hall & Wilcox privacy and employment law experts Alison Baker and Iona Goodwin, as well as cybersecurity specialists ...

COVIDSafe app: exposure draft of privacy legislation released

Health & Community| 06 May 2020

COVIDSafe app: exposure draft of privacy legislation released

The Federal Government launched the COVIDSafe app in a bid to manage and control the spread of COVID-19 as state and territory governments begin to ease lockdown restrictions. Partners John Gray and Alison Choy Flannigan outline how the app works.

Privacy law issues in response to COVID-19

Employment & Workplace Relations| 31 Mar 2020

Privacy law issues in response to COVID-19

Organisations are facing unprecedented challenges to address the spread of COVID-19. In doing so, organisations are likely to be handling more and different personal information than normal. It is important that when designing and implementing measures in response to the ...