The UNSW Allens Hub for Technology Law and Innovation and Australian Society of Computers and Law made a joint submission to the ACCC’s Digital Advertising Services Inquiry: Interim Report, focusing on:• the scope and focus of the inquiry;• the analysis of issues at the intersection of...

This Submission to NSW Department of Communities and Justice Inquiry into Privacy and Personal Information Protection Amendment Bill 2021, focuses on aspects of the Bill on which our research can shed light and is limited to: 1. reasons why we support a Mandatory Notification of Data Breach...

As we previously noted in our response to the Issues Paper on Data Sharing and Release, the current law around government information-sharing is unnecessarily complex. There is a patchwork of laws dealing with the sharing of government information which results in confusion and reluctance within...

Despite law being a field known for its backward-looking focus on precedent, legal scholarship addressing issues associated with technology too often only looks forward. It is where legal scholarship focuses closely on a particular technology that the risk of ignoring history and the broader...

The difficulty of adapting legal frameworks to changing circumstances is often represented by images of ʻlawʼ losing a race. Such visions are commonly raised in scholarship concerned with particular problems that arise in applying existing legal rules to new situations, particularly situations...

Predictive policing—the use of data, combined with mathematical or machine learning algorithms to predict the risks of crime in specific locations and times—has raised hopes as well as strengthened the rhetoric of using technology for crime control. The apparently enthusiastic uptake of...

In Fashion ID, the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU') held that an operator of a website featuring a Facebook ‘Like' button is a data controller under EU Directive 95/46 (‘Directive') jointly with Facebook in respect of the collection and transmission of the personal data of...

In Google LLC v. CNIL, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU or Court) held that the EU law only requires valid “right to be forgotten” “de-referencing” requests to be carried out by a search engine operator on search engine versions accessible in EU Member States, as opposed...

Contemporary discourse on the regulation and governance of the digital environment has often focused on the procedural value of transparency. This article traces the prominence of the concept of transparency in contemporary regulatory debates to the corporate agenda of technology companies....