#Australia
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Australia's Online Safety Regulator Tells Smart Glasses Makers to Blur Strangers' Faces by Default
eSafety has called on companies like Meta to build automatic face-blurring into camera-equipped smart glasses, warning that privacy can't be traded away for accessibility.
Australia drafts new privacy laws to rein in AI data use, smart glasses and identity theft
Proposed legislation would give Australians the right to delete their personal data from social media and search platforms, and a new tool to lock their ID documents against misuse.
Cyber attack on Australian book distributor leaves bookshops empty-handed before Christmas
A suspected ransomware attack on Alliance Distribution Services has disrupted book supply across Australia for six weeks, hitting independent bookshops and Hachette authors at the worst possible time.
Australia moves to ban 'spy glasses' that secretly film people in public
Cheap smart glasses that look ordinary but record video without the wearer appearing to do anything suspicious have sparked two mass petitions and a new bill in the Australian parliament.
He sent $180,000 to a woman who didn't exist. AI built her face.
A retired Australian psychologist spent a year in a deepfake romance before a six-fingered hand gave the game away. The technology is now good enough to fool a professional trained in human behaviour.
Accused deepfaker told police stripping women's clothes digitally was 'like X-ray vision glasses'
An Australian man on trial for stalking and distributing intimate images admits he used AI tools to create fake nude photos of high school students and staff, calling it a hobby and 'just funny'.
Dark-web card data, 98 Bunnings items, and one PowerPass account: how a South Australian man was caught
Aijaypal Tim Sanghera used stolen credit card numbers, almost certainly bought on the dark web, to order $15,899 worth of goods from Bunnings stores across South Australia. A loyalty account tied every transaction to his name.
Australian Police Arrest Two Alleged Members of Supply-Chain Extortion Crew TeamPCP
The Western Australia arrests target a group blamed for a year-long run of open-source software attacks, including the Shai-Hulud worm that hit thousands of companies.
Cyberattack on Hachette Australia Leaves Bookshops Without Stock During Peak Season
A breach of the publisher's computer systems on 18 July has frozen book distribution across Australia and New Zealand, hitting authors, retailers, and readers at the worst possible moment in the retail calendar.
Fake ABC News Pages and a Swiss 'Broker' Who Never Existed: Inside a $500,000 Investment Scam
An international fraud network linked to Israel, with call centres across Europe and beyond, has taken hundreds of millions of dollars from victims worldwide, including thousands of Australians, using fabricated news sites, invented trading profits and fake debts.
Roblox Signs Legal Agreement with Australian Regulators After Adults Found Able to Contact Children Without Parental Consent
Australia's online safety watchdog found that adult accounts on Roblox could see children's profiles and send them connection requests, all without a parent ever knowing. Now Roblox has put its promises in writing.
Quest Apartment Hotels Investigating Customer Data Breach Tied to Third-Party Provider
Personal details of Quest guests, including names, email addresses and some dates of birth, were exposed after criminals broke into a database through a flaw in an outside supplier's system.
Nearly a Million Australians' Data Stolen in Origin Energy Breach Traced to Manila Call Centre
A former employee at a Manila-based Accenture office allegedly took customer records belonging to roughly 900,000 Origin Energy customers and tried to extort the company for money to return them.
Airlock Digital Passes Australia's Toughest Government Security Check
The Australian application control firm has cleared an independent IRAP assessment at PROTECTED level, giving government and critical-infrastructure buyers one more piece of evidence for their due-diligence files.
Australian Supermarkets Are Testing Face-Scanning Technology on Shoppers
Coles and Woolworths have confirmed trials of facial recognition software in their stores. Privacy advocates say collecting biometric data from grocery shoppers crosses a line.