Over the last three years, the Attorney-General’s Department has conducted a Review of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). On 28 September, the Government Response to the Privacy Act Review Report was published. This Government Response comes eight months after the...

On July 10, 2023, the European Commission (EC) adopted an Adequacy Decision regarding the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF). The decision taken by the EC regarding the EU-U.S. DPF enables organisations to certify their compliance with the EU-U.S. DPF, simplifying the process of...

The emergence of powerful Large Language Models (LLM) led businesses to consider the implementation of these technologies in their daily activities. LLMs have the potential to improve business productivity and efficiency, but they can also be an additional risk factor that should be...

Introduction   The Kingdom of Saudia Arabia new has adopted new Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) to regulate personal data processing and prevent personal data abuse in line with the goals of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 to develop a digital infrastructure and support innovation to...

Nowadays there is often a lack of understanding of why and how privacy policy is important for any organization that processes personal data.  This blog post sheds light on the notion of the privacy policy, its importance, structure, and enforcement. Hopefully, after reading...

We continue the series ‘Privacy basics’ with bite-sized articles on the core concepts of privacy and data protection. The purpose of this blog series is to make privacy as simple as possible by explaining some of the most important core concepts. With each new blog article, we...

This is the first post of the new series “Privacy basics”. As a privacy and data protection consultancy, we know the challenges of this field can be highly complex, but the first step to...

In November 2020, the European Commission (“EC”) put forward a proposal for a regulation on data governance (“Act” or “Proposal”). As part of the process, EC asked the EDPB (European Data Protection Body) and the EDPS (European Data Protection Supervisor) for their comments to the...

Introduction This article explores one of the ongoing criticisms made of the GDPR and seeks to explain why one specific emerging technology – Artificial Intelligence (AI) – is causing so much fuss in...

Whenever you visit any website, the first thing you notice is a big annoying banner that is supposed to let you know about how/if cookies are used. Some cookie banners are smaller, some bigger; some are more compliant, others are less compliant, but they are always there. If you...