A blog relating to Internet legal issues by Professor John Swinson, University of Queensland
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Privacy Guidelines in Australia
The Privacy Guidelines are no longer consultation drafts – the final version was released today (link below).
They have reversed
their view on the application
of the Privacy Act to foreign website operators. So much so that the
guidelines now conclude that “Where an entity merely has a website that can be accessed from Australia, this is generally not sufficient to establish that the
website operator is ‘carrying on a business’ in Australia”
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Law Firm Phishing
A good article about how a NY law firm (Debevoise) attacked a phishing website but attacking the domain name. https://www.reuters.com/legal/...
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The United Nations intellectual property agency (WIPO) is the latest front in the US-China trade war. http://www.theage.com.au/world/sad-am...
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The Australian Privacy Commission made an award compensating individuals for non-economic loss for a privacy law breach. This was a first ...
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Many people are aware of the use of cookies for tracking purposes. But that is old technology. Many advertisers use more sophisticated tec...