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Dominique Grubisa’s companies illegally scraped court websites: OAIC
The OAIC has found two companies connected to wealth guru Dominique Grubisa breached privacy laws by scraping data from court websites for a client lead list used to target vulnerable people.
Bird & Bird snags DLA Piper partner for Sydney office
Bird & Bird has hired DLA Piper technology and data protection partner Nicholas Boyle to join the firm's Sydney office.
Bunnings’ facial recognition tech found to have breached privacy laws
Bunnings has been found to have breached privacy laws with the use of facial recognition technology in its stores, but the hardware chain has vowed to seek a review of the decision.
Australian Clinical Labs flags strike-out bid in OAIC data breach case
Australian Clinical Labs may seek to strike out part of the OAIC's case over a 2022 data breach, arguing it would unfairly allow the watchdog to allege both single and multiple contraventions of privacy law.
Medibank says Deloitte data breach report not relevant in shareholder class action
Medibank is seeking to shield from a shareholder class action an "irrelevant" post-incident report by Deloitte into its massive October 2022 data breach.
Optus denies cyberattack was not ‘highly sophisticated’
Optus has struck back at ACMA's claim that a cyberattack that exposed the information of around 10 million customers was not a "highly sophisticated" operation.
CBA hit with $7.5M penalty for breaching spam laws
Commonwealth Bank has paid a $7.5 million penalty after an ACMA investigation found it sent over 170 million emails that violated spam laws. 
1 or 21M: Australian Clinical Labs wants court’s take on OAIC’s data breach maths
Australian Clinical Labs, which is facing regulatory action over a 2022 data breach, is fighting the information commissioner's claim that it breached privacy laws 21.5 million times.
Worker who criticised ATO on LinkedIn post was not terminated: FWC
An ATO employee who claimed he was bullied after criticising the regulator's data management practices in a LinkedIn comment resigned of his own accord, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Medibank admits lack of multi-factor authentication partly to blame for breach
Medibank has denied breaching privacy rules in response to the regulator's case over a 2022 cyber attack, but has admitted sensitive data was hacked in part because its network lacked multi-factor authentication.