As far as headlines about ‘AI gone rogue’ go, this one is possibly my favourite from the past couple of months: “How one CEO’s chatbot could cost his company $355 million”. I eagerly clicked on the newspaper story, assuming it would offer a similar tale of corporate woe to the debacle a couple of years…

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A little-known side effect of changes to anti-money laundering laws is that more than 100,000 small businesses in Australia will, for the first time, be required to comply with the Privacy Act, starting 1 July 2026. While most small businesses in Australia – defined as having a turnover of less than $3M pa – have…

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Across 2-3 December, the IAPP ANZ Summit was held in Sydney – the largest ever gathering of privacy professionals in our region, with more than 500 attendees.  The Helios Salinger team was out in force, catching up with old friends, making new connections, and welcoming young professionals into the fold. For our final blog of…

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In Australia, our information privacy rights turn on the threshold definition of ‘personal information’.  If data meets the definition of ‘personal information’, there will be privacy obligations attached to it; otherwise, all bets are off. The components of the definition include that the information must be ‘about an individual’, and that the individual must be ‘identified ……

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A recent NSW case illustrates the complexity of obtaining lawful authority to disclose personal information – and the equal importance of on-going vigilance, to ensure compliance. Rather than privacy compliance being determined with a single assessment about lawful authority to proceed, I often think that project initiation should involve a set of four cascading assessments:…

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