On 23 January 2022, the Online Safety Act 2021 (Cth) (OSA 2021) and the Online Safety (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2021 (Cth) ) (OSTPCAA 2021) commenced. The new legislation introduces wide-ranging and significant reforms to Australia’s online safety.
Practical Law Australia In-house has published six new resources by Mo Zain Ajaz, founder of Lex 360, which focus on legal department operations - from creating a robust demand management framework to identifying and embedding technology in the legal function.
Online defamation in the spotlight. The Australian Government has released the exposure draft of the Social Media (Anti-Trolling) Bill 2021 (Cth) to unmask online authors of defamatory comments on social media.
The past twelve months have seen significant activity by the Commonwealth government in its efforts to progress reforms to the regulatory framework of Australia’s critical infrastructure to uplift the security and resilience of essential services in Australia.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has finalised consultation with its stakeholders to provide the new Therapeutic Goods (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Instrument 2021 which repeals the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code (No. 2) 2018 and will commence on 1 January 2022.
On 28 October 2021, the ACCC published Digital platform services inquiry: Interim report No. 3 – Search defaults (third interim report) and choice screens as part of its Digital platform services inquiry 2020-2025.
Practical Law Commercial have released a new resource, Legal Update, QAD Inc v Shepparton Partners Collective Operations Pty Ltd (sale of business, software licensing and copyright infringement).
A recent determination of the Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner (Commissioner) has found that Clearview AI interfered with the privacy of Australians by engaging in the practice of scraping images of individual’s faces from publicly available websites, such...
The allocation of director identification numbers (DINs) by the Australian Business Registry Services (ABRS) commenced on 1 November 2021. In this Practice note, the Practical Law Commercial team consider the data protection and privacy issues relevant to both directors and companies...
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