Australia’s first privacy class action settles
13 December 2019
On 9 December 2019 the Supreme Court of NSW approved a settlement of a class action alleging invasion of privacy — the first Australian case of this kind.
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Patrick Gunning
The elephant in the room – is there a tort of privacy in Australian law?
15 November 2019
Because data is intangible and not protected by a single legal doctrine the law struggles to fashion appropriate remedies when data has been copied or ‘stolen’ in an unauthorised manner.
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Australian Privacy Commissioner takes expansive view of jurisdiction in Ashley Madison case
31 August 2016
Many regulators take an expansive view of their remit, and the Australian Privacy Commissioner has acted in this way in the Ashley Madison case.
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Wi-fi tracking of students in Australia
17 August 2016
Recent publicity about an Australian university’s practice of tracking the location of people connected to the university’s wi-fi network raises a mixture of policy and legal issues.
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Computer implemented business methods – routine patent cases for the Australian courts?
21 December 2015
A Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia appeared to suggest that patent cases involving claimed inventions for computer implemented business methods can be determined using an established framework and such cases are no longer at the cutting edge of patentability – that mantle has been assumed by gene technology.
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EU-US privacy safe harbor no longer safe
9 October 2015
Our European colleagues have summarised the recent decision of the European Court of Justice dealing with the EU-US privacy safe harbor.
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Australian Department of Immigration data breach – another court decision
21 September 2015
Data security breaches can cause much more than financial harm to affected individuals.
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Misuse of private information is a “tort” in English law
21 May 2015
The Court of Appeal for England and Wales has held that the cause of action recognised in English law since Campbell v Mirror Group for misuse of private information should be classified as a tort rather than an equitable cause of action.
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