ACCC’s focus for 2020 – are you it?
On 25 February 2020, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission released its Compliance and Enforcement Policy for 2020. There are a number of key priority areas that the ACCC has id...
Latest Development in Digital Platforms Regulation
On 10 February 2020, the Treasurer, the Hon Josh Frydenberg MP, issued the Competition and Consumer (Price Inquiry – Digital Advertising Services) Direction 2020 (Direction). The Direction author...
The federal government’s response to the ACCC digital platform inquiry – What changes can we expect?
On 12 December 2019, the Federal Government released a statement in response to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Digital Platforms Inquiry final report. This final report ou...
Are you protecting your customers data? Why data privacy is so critical to the customer experience.
If you think about the number of ‘junk’ emails you receive from the countless companies you have ‘subscribed’ to over the years, how many emails would that be? In being subscribed to these newsletters...
Key takeaways for businesses from the ACCC Digital Platforms Inquiry
On the 26 July 2019 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) released the final report into the Digital Platforms Inquiry. Prompted by the rise of advertising on digital platfor...
NEWS FLASH: New EU privacy laws may apply to your business from May 2018. Are you ready?
If you collect personal information about customers and they are European citizens or residents or if your business markets to customers in the EU, you must comply with new privacy ...
Mandatory data breach notification laws apply in 2018
I have had a number of queries recently about data breaches and mandatory reporting. Currently, there is no law requiring that a company notify compromised parties if there has been a data breac...
Mandatory Data Breach Notification Bill
Data breach law has been a hot topic recently. On 19 October 2016, the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 was introduced to Parliament. The new bill, if passed, will make it...
3 Reasons to have a Privacy Policy
Privacy policies are mandatory for businesses with a turnover of over $3 million or those that collect ‘sensitive Information’ from people. However, there are a range of other reasons why all bu...
Data Breaches Occur in One Third of In-house Counsel
As I recently discussed in a previous article, data breaches are a growing problem and the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) have highlighted the prevalence of data breaches within Australian in-...
Save time this year on legal matters…
It’s already halfway through January and before we know it, we will be into February as the days and months escape our calendars. I thought a great start to the year would be to set ou...
QuickTip: Consider Data Breach Notification
09. If your customer information gets hacked or stolen, protect goodwill & mitigate potential losses by sending out a voluntary data breach notification. For more details, see our full blog post&...