The Australian Information Commissioner (AIC), Carly Kind, found that Kmart Australia Limited interfered with individuals’ privacy by using a Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) system in 28 retail stores between June 2020 and July 2022 to detect and prevent store refund fraud.

The Commissioner substantiated multiple breaches of the Australian Privacy Act 1988:

1. Kmart collected the sensitive information of all individuals ...

Recent legal filings highlight ongoing conflicts between generative AI companies and content creators over copyrighted material.

A proposed class action settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC addresses Anthropic’s alleged large-scale copyright infringement for torrenting and commercially exploiting books obtained from pirated datasets, specifically Library Genesis (LibGen) and Pirate Library Mirror (PiLiMi), to train Anthropic’s Large Language Models (LLMs). The settlement, ...

A three-judge panel of the Israeli Supreme Court, sitting as High Court of Justice, unanimously held that the Israeli police may not search digital devices (particularly mobile phones) of suspects without a judicial warrant, based solely on the suspect's consent. Under the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, police searches of computer materials may only be conducted "pursuant to a judge's order." However, ...