@NWitzleb

Legal academic at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Monash University adjunct. Researching in privacy law, data protection and the law of obligations.

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Joined September 2018
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Australia's privacy reform bill has been introduced to Parliament - a short thread (1/7): aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Bus…
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(6/7) The Bill creates two new doxxing offences where an individual’s personal data is published online to menace or harass them and where this occurs to target them as a member of a group distinguished by race, ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.
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(7/7) The Government describes the Bill as an "important first step in ensuring Australians’ privacy is properly respected and protected" – an implicit admission that it leaves much unfinished business until after the next election.
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Please join us for the upcoming annual conference of the @CCTL_CUHKLaw Obligations Lab Asia on ‘Private Law in Greater China: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’ (hybrid), 10 May 2024. Registrations now open, full program: bit.ly/4a2SHyr @CUHKLaw #lawconf #privatelaw
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Are you interested in the latest developments in #tortlaw and #climatechange? Please join us for this seminar by Australian experts Tina Popa, Anne Kallies, Vanessa Johnston and @niaemmanouil, this Friday, 17 Nov. Register @ bit.ly/47rcG9h @CUHKLaw @CCTL_CUHKLaw

CCTL Obligations Lab Asia Seminar - 'A New Dawn on the (Tort) Horizon? Examining How Negligence and...

Register Increasingly, the global community is recognising that climate change can cause and contribute to a range of harms and hazards that impact the personal safety and property of vulnerable...

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The Australian government has published its response to the Privacy Act Review Report. The vast majority of proposals in the Report have been agreed to or agreed to in principle but... consultations.ag.gov.au/inte… (1/5)
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and new rights of access, explanation and erasure. We also still need to hold our breath on the direct right of action and the statutory privacy tort. (4/5)
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The government merely 'noted' the proposals for an unqualified right to opt out of targeted advertising for adults, the removal of the political exemption and on stronger protections of de-identified information, which means all of these are off the table. (5/5)
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Registrations are now open for the next annual conference of the @CCTL_CUHKLaw Obligations Lab Asia. Please join us for a high calibre conference on ‘Transformation or Adaptation? #PrivateLaw and New Technologies’ (Online), 12 May 2023 @CUHKLaw webapp3.law.cuhk.edu.hk/conf…
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The Privacy Act Review Report has been released today. Was it worth the 2 year wait? Generally yes. Major strides towards bringing Australian data protection law in alignment with international standards. ag.gov.au/rights-and-protect…
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Are you working on "Private Law and New Technologies"? We're interested in your paper for the next conference of the Obligations Lab Asia @CCTL_CUHKLaw. CfP out now! Please join us @CUHKLaw #privatelaw #obligationslaw law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c…

Call for Papers: CCTL Obligations Lab Asia Conference – ‘Transformation or Adaptation? Private Law...

Law has an important function in ensuring that the benefits of technological innovation can be fully harnessed and that burdens are fairly distributed. However, there are diverging views on when...

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Please join us for the Obligations Lab Asia annual conference 'Transformation or Adaptation? Private Law and New Technologies' on 12 May 2023 (online/hybrid). Call for Papers out now! @CCTL_CUHKLaw #lawtech bit.ly/3PeALbC
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The Castan Centre endorses @DRWaus position, and strongly recommended earlier this year that such exemptions be removed because of the risk of misuse, particularly with the advent of big data analytics. #HumanRights #Privacy monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf…
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Promising and refreshing to hear from new A-G on #auslaw #dataprivacy reforms. afr.com/politics/federal/dre…

Dreyfus pledges sweeping data privacy reforms

After more than a decade of stalled reforms, new attorney-general Mark Dreyfus is pledging to bring sweeping reforms to Australia’s anachronistic data privacy laws.

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