#Australia
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NSW Plans to Share Licence Photos With National Face-Matching Database
A new bill before the New South Wales parliament would connect the state to a federal facial recognition system, hand police access to toll road camera images, and let investigators apply to search seized phones and laptops. Civil liberties groups say the changes amount to mass surveillance with too few safeguards.
Kmart's $89 Camera Glasses Sold Out Across Australia. Privacy Experts Are Alarmed.
A pair of smart glasses that can secretly record HD video retails for less than a restaurant dinner. Digital rights advocates say the law hasn't kept up.
Victorian Parliamentary Committee Exposes Cult Survivors' Email Addresses in Mass Mailing Blunder
A parliamentary committee sent its final report on cult harm to 330 visible recipients, accidentally revealing the contact details of abuse survivors to the very groups they had fled.
Schools Are Handing Deepfake Criminals a Photo Album
Australia's eSafety regulator is warning schools to stop posting student and teacher photos online after a surge in AI-generated deepfakes built from official school feeds.
US and Australia Publish Joint Playbook for Cutting Critical Infrastructure Off From Cyber Attack
New guidance tells power plants, water utilities, and other essential services how to keep running even when their networks are under attack or must be disconnected entirely.
Matched, Manipulated, Blackmailed: How Sextortion Scams Target Young Men
Organised criminal networks are using dating apps and social media to trap young men into sharing intimate images, then demanding money. Two Australian survivors explain what happened and what they wish they had known.
764: The Online Network Grooming Children Into Violence
The FBI has hundreds of open investigations into 764, a shadowy online community that manipulates children into harming themselves and others. Here is what parents need to know.
CubePilot Drone Maker Hijacked at the DNS Level, Passwords and Firmware in Doubt
Attackers seized control of cubepilot.org on July 24, issued valid HTTPS certificates for every subdomain, and intercepted traffic to the login portal and forum before the Australian firm clawed the domain back.
The Man Who Meets You at Your Worst: Inside Melbourne Airport's Only Chaplain
Martyn Scrimshaw has spent nine years walking the terminals of Melbourne Airport, helping the homeless, the scammed, the grieving, and the fleeing. Now a film starring Hugo Weaving is bringing his work to a wider audience.
Gold Coast teacher charged after using AI to generate explicit images of students and staff
A 73-year-old former teacher at a Queensland private school faces four criminal charges after police found AI-generated child exploitation material on his school-issued laptop, following a nine-month investigation.
Australian Regulator Fines TAB $2.7 Million for Spam and Telemarketing Breaches
Tabcorp's gambling brand ignored Do Not Call registrations and ignored unsubscribe requests at scale. Now it has paid more than $2.7 million in penalties, and the regulator says the failures point to deep problems inside the company's compliance systems.
Origin Energy confirms data breach; hacker claims 2 million customer records held for extortion
Australia's largest energy retailer says names, addresses, birth dates and partial bank details were exposed. An unidentified hacker calling themselves 'John Doe' has threatened to leak the data within two weeks.
Brisbane Medical Clinic Took Three Months to Tell Patients Their Emails Were Read by Hackers
GO2 Health notified the regulator in May but did not warn affected patients until July, raising questions about Australia's 30-day disclosure rules and whether they go far enough.
Australia Plans Strict Rules on AI in Government Decision-Making
Canberra is drawing up binding requirements for how federal agencies use automated decision tools, with fairness, accuracy and transparency at the centre of the framework.
Australian Health Clinics Waited 22 Days to Warn Patients After Hackers Stole Medical Records
Partnered Health, which operates more than 60 clinics across Australia, sat on a serious data theft for three weeks before telling anyone. Experts say that gap is long enough to cause real harm.