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Politics • 17 June 2024 • ByIan Aldridge and Gianluca PecoraNew Digital ID Bill raises serious privacy concerns for Australians

It is incumbent on lawyers to raise alarm bells when they see the legislature passing laws that impact the legal rights...

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Corporate Counsel • 14 June 2024 • ByNaomi NeilsonJudge flags merging Optus data breach proceedings

A judge has suggested a merge of the Optus data breach class action with proceedings launched by the communications...

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Big Law • 03 June 2024 • ByLiam GarmanThe dangers of storing unnecessary data

Here, Lawyers Weekly’s sister brand, Cyber Daily, sits down with Brenton Steenkamp, cyber partner at Clayton Utz, to...

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Corporate Counsel • 28 May 2024 • ByJerome DoraisamyAn insight into life for vacation ownership legal teams

Here, the head of international operations for Travel + Leisure Co unpacks what daily practice looks like for lawyers in...

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Corporate Counsel • 22 May 2024 • ByMalavika SanthebennurSecuring legal professional privilege after a cyber breach

Last year, Optus failed to keep a Deloitte report into a major data breach away from a class action applicant. Here, an...

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Corporate Counsel • 14 May 2024 • ByAnnie Haggar and Denny WanStriking the right balance when disclosing cyber events

Goldilocks and the cyber risk disclosure porridge: an old children’s tale offers a useful lesson for disclosure of...

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Corporate Counsel • 30 April 2024 • ByBrenton SteenkampHow to tackle the data governance information void

When we submit our data to businesses and governments, we enter an unspoken agreement that it is being stored and...

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Corporate Counsel • 23 April 2024 • ByGrace RobbieCompany failures on the rise, says ASIC

The latest insolvency data published by the corporate regulator reveals that the number of companies failing is...

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Corporate Counsel • 04 April 2024 • ByDaniel CroftGoogle to destroy billions of records of data as part of lawsuit...

To settle a lawsuit that accused it of tracking users browsing the internet using Google Chrome despite them being in...

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Big Law • 25 March 2024 • ByNaomi Neilson1.5k children strip-searched in 7 years, law research reveals

NSW police strip-searched the equivalent of 51 school classes in seven years, a new report from the Redfern Legal Centre...

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