Way more than an everyday interest in IP
Late last week the Full Federal Court delivered what should be the final word in a long-running dispute between the Privacy Commissioner and Telstra about whether data generated within a telecommunications network in the course of transmitting calls and other messages should be treated as “personal information” under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The case read more...The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has delivered Telstra, and many other companies who collect operational data about services they provide to individual end users, an early Christmas present by overturning a determination by the Privacy Commissioner from earlier this year and finding that mobile network data held by Telstra is not personal information about Telstra’s customers. read more...
The Federal Court of Canada recently handed down a decision which squarely examines whether the use of metatags can constitute copyright or trade mark infringement. In Red Label Vacations Inc v 411 Travel Buys Limited, 2015 FC 19, Justice Manson found that the impugned metatags did not attract copyright protection, and so the reproduction of read more...
On 26 March 2015 the Government’s controversial new telecommunications data retention laws were passed by Parliament. These laws, enacted through the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Act 2015 (Cth), will now come into effect 6 months from the date that the Act receives royal assent. It is perhaps somewhat unfair to describe this read more...
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security published its advisory report on Australia’s metadata retention bill today (Friday 27th). The report is bipartisan, in that representatives of both major political parties agree with its recommendations.
