The size and economic importance of India has caused its data protection and privacy rules to come under increasing scrutiny. In recent years, the Indian government has enacted disparate pieces of legislation dealing with data protection in areas such as information technology, credit...

Can a computer program which knows little about the Motor Accidents Act 1988 (NSW), and nothing of comparable verdicts, be relied upon to determine the assessment of bodily injury claims in New South Wales? Colossus, an ‘expert system' developed jointly by GIO Australia and Continuum...

The Australian Government's Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act 2012 was enacted on 29 November 2012 but will not commence until March 2014. It contains the first significant amendments to the Privacy Act 1988 since 2001. The whole process took nearly seven years since the...

Singapore's legislature enacted the Personal Data Protection Act on 15 October 2012, making it the tenth jurisdiction in Asia to enact a data privacy law. It is the fourth data privacy law enacted in the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) region. This article explains the scope of...

This article is a report on the Asian Privacy Scholars Network (APSN) 2nd International Conference: Privacy in the Social Networked World, Meiji University, Tokyo on 19-20 November 2012. The Conference involved researchers from ten countries, and was hosted by the Centre for Business Information...