Tag: Privacy

Australia’s impending privacy overhaul is forcing businesses to rethink their data strategies. Balancing innovation with compliance is the new challenge.

Elizabeth Carroll, Partner at Holding Redlich, explores the potential impact on organizations, particularly those dealing with sensitive health information

This year’s theme serves as a reminder for SMEs to review their privacy policies and practices.

Being privacy-conscious helps organisations preserve their customer relationships and future business prospects as well operate with ethical behaviour writes Devicie’s Security and Compliance Director Glyn Geoghegan.

The Federal Court has ruled that Google misled some of its Australian customers about how it collected personal location data between 2017 and 2018.

A Melbourne lawyer is warning businesses to prepare for potential privacy issues that may already be arising from current remote working conditions. Rigby Cooke Lawyers Senior Associate Emma Simpson said while business owners were currently focussed on doing what they could to remain afloat, a significant privacy breach could seriously impede their recovery. “Many businesses […]

Do we always know when companies collect personal information about us? When we choose to provide personal information, do we know how it will be used and stored? Often we do not. The scale of the problem of improper data collection was illustrated by recent revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a research and marketing firm, likely […]

In the United States, it is becoming vogue for companies to pay for female employees to freeze their eggs, with the likes of Apple, Facebook and Google introducing the policy. It’s being sold as a means for women to further their careers, free of pressure to have children at a particular point in time. However, […]

The increased use and application of blockchain technology is set to disrupt companies of all sizes, across all industries, and in almost every area, from payments and transactions to contracts and identity verification. Small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will not be immune to the disruption. Blockchain technology was created to facilitate online payments via a […]

These days our mobile phones are an extension of ourselves – we access them for almost everything. With so much time dedicated to the small screen in our hands, it makes sense for start-ups and entrepreneurs to consider launching online-only businesses. There are a number of benefits of being solely an e-commerce operation, particularly from […]