Commentary on law, technology, and the space between.
Australian privacy law has entered its enforcement era — the first civil penalty, a $50 million Meta settlement, and a statutory tort. But is the law being strengthened, or actually rethought?
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Three months into the world-first ban, 4.7 million accounts are gone, teenagers are migrating to smaller apps, and Reddit is in the High Court. What the first quarter reveals about what the law actually means.
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Who owns what comes out of the model, and who is owed what for the material that went in? Australia's answer to the first is an accident of doctrine — and its answer to the second was settled just last month.
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Australia has assembled its first dedicated cyber security statute book — ransomware payment reporting, a Cyber Incident Review Board, and a legislative attempt to buy candour. Six months on, how is it holding up?
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AI now decides who gets hired, what news we see, and how police patrol. The world is writing its first AI laws — but the genuinely hard problems are ethical ones that no compliance checklist can resolve.
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