Australia’s Qantas to Pay $79M to Settle Flight Cancellation Case May 7, 2024 By Byron Kaye and Poonam Behura Australia’s Qantas Airways agreed to pay A$120 million ($79 million) to settle a regulator lawsuit over the sale of thousands...
Point of No Return? Australians Fight for the Right to Work Permanently From Home August 2, 2023 By Byron Kaye Before COVID-19 sent one-third of the global workforce home, the Melbourne property surveyor that employs drone operator Nicholas Coomber called...
Australia Fines Facebook Owner Meta $14M for Failure to Disclose Data Collection July 26, 2023 By Byron Kaye An Australian court ordered Facebook owner Meta Platforms to pay fines totaling A$20 million ($14 million) for collecting user data...
Australia Is Inadvertently Inviting Cyber Crimewave, Data Theft Victim Service Warns April 5, 2023 By Byron Kaye An Australian government-backed service for victims of identity theft blasted a plan to toughen privacy laws amid an explosion of...
Australia Regulator Questions Benefits of ANZ’s $3.3B Suncorp Buyout April 4, 2023 By Scott Murdoch and Byron Kaye Australia’s competition regulator said it was unconvinced a planned A$4.9 billion ($3.32 billion) buyout by Australia and New Zealand Banking...
TPG Telecom Joins Growing List of Australian Companies Hit by Cyber Attacks December 14, 2022 By Praveen Menon and Byron Kaye Internet services provider TPG Telecom Ltd. became the latest Australian company to fall victim to a high-profile cyberattack, announcing on...
Australia’s Hacking Frenzy Spurred by Understaffed Cybersecurity Workforce October 31, 2022 By Byron Kaye and Lewis Jackson A swathe of hacks on some of Australia’s biggest companies has made the country a target for copycat attacks just...
Australia’s No. 1 Health Insurer Confirms Massive Data Breach, Theft of Patient Details October 20, 2022 By Byron Kaye Australia’s biggest health insurer said on Thursday a criminal had apparently stolen customers’ medical information as part of a massive...
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch Sues Australian News Site for Defamation August 24, 2022 By Byron Kaye and Jack Queen Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch has filed a defamation lawsuit against an Australian news site over an opinion piece he...
Google Ordered to Pay Former Australian Lawmaker for Defamatory YouTube Videos June 6, 2022 By Byron Kaye SYDNEY – An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay a former lawmaker A$715,000 ($515,000), saying its refusal to...