Privacy

Workplace surveillance is used to check productivity, ensure safety and reduce fraud and losses. But as increasingly powerful tools and devices spread, multiple government inquiries are attempting to define the line of what is appropriate.  

Meta's new experiment is part of the tech giant's cautious return to the use of facial recognition, having backed away from the technology amid a series of costly lawsuits.

Darwin woman Toni Grant was shocked when she received a call from a stranger telling her they'd found personal records containing her mobile number, tax file number and medical information in a pile of rubbish in bushland. Similar documents belonging to others were also found.

Ecovacs robot vacuums in multiple US cities were hacked in the space of a few days, with the attacker physically controlling them and yelling obscenities through their onboard speakers.

A Choice investigation has found most of Australia's popular car brands collect and share "driver data", ranging from braking patterns to video footage and voice recognition information.

The ABC has found critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Ecovacs devices.

Without even entering the building, we were able to silently peer through the camera on a Deebot device made by Chinese giant Ecovacs.

Hundreds of email addresses, some understood to belong to victims of crime, have been shared in a Victorian courts administrative blunder, leaving at least one victim "very frightened" about the fallout.

Explicit and uncensored CCTV vision of people having sex in a lift and urinating in public was turned into a video and played to hundreds of staff at a Merivale awards night.

The Transport Department and minister have said neither review is ready to be made public, despite one being completed two years ago.

Workers are being asked to undergo blood tests as part of the recruitment process, particularly in the mining and resources sectors, with no guarantee their health information is secure, a new report has found.

Civil liberties advocates in Queensland remain concerned the cameras could capture nudity, underwear or private moments and are calling on the government to release the findings of two independent reviews into the privacy implications.

Australia's privacy watchdog says there's "cause for concern" over X's harvesting of the user data of its Australian users to train a new generation of AI chatbots.

Experts say AI is the "largest gold rush in the history of capitalism", and that Australia is falling behind. But there's something else we're also trailing the pack on: the time it takes to manage privacy settings on websites.

An investigation by Human Rights Watch has found hundreds of photos of Australians, including children, being used without consent to train Generative AI. Technology and human rights expert Edward Santow explains what this means and why it’s a problem.

The privacy of Australian children is being violated on a large scale, with their personal images — and sometimes their names and locations — being used to train the AI powering most of the world's image-generators.

House-sitting platforms are connecting sitters and home owners for a fee. But who's responsible when things go wrong?

Information we share online can be used to spy on us, influence the advertising we see, train algorithms, and more. To avoid this some messaging apps use encryption allowing people to communicate privately.

Scammers are using loyalty point programs as the latest way to try to trick you. To keep you safe, here are the common signs to watch out for. 

City of Moreton Bay council says an investigation has been launched into how names, addresses, phone numbers and complaint details were accidentally published online.