Privacy

The ABC has found critical cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Ecovacs devices.

Without even entering the building, we were able to silently peer through the camera on a Deebot device made by Chinese giant Ecovacs.

Hundreds of email addresses, some understood to belong to victims of crime, have been shared in a Victorian courts administrative blunder, leaving at least one victim "very frightened" about the fallout.

Explicit and uncensored CCTV vision of people having sex in a lift and urinating in public was turned into a video and played to hundreds of staff at a Merivale awards night.

The Transport Department and minister have said neither review is ready to be made public, despite one being completed two years ago.

Workers are being asked to undergo blood tests as part of the recruitment process, particularly in the mining and resources sectors, with no guarantee their health information is secure, a new report has found.

Civil liberties advocates in Queensland remain concerned the cameras could capture nudity, underwear or private moments and are calling on the government to release the findings of two independent reviews into the privacy implications.

Australia's privacy watchdog says there's "cause for concern" over X's harvesting of the user data of its Australian users to train a new generation of AI chatbots.

Experts say AI is the "largest gold rush in the history of capitalism", and that Australia is falling behind. But there's something else we're also trailing the pack on: the time it takes to manage privacy settings on websites.

An investigation by Human Rights Watch has found hundreds of photos of Australians, including children, being used without consent to train Generative AI. Technology and human rights expert Edward Santow explains what this means and why it’s a problem.

The privacy of Australian children is being violated on a large scale, with their personal images — and sometimes their names and locations — being used to train the AI powering most of the world's image-generators.

House-sitting platforms are connecting sitters and home owners for a fee. But who's responsible when things go wrong?

Information we share online can be used to spy on us, influence the advertising we see, train algorithms, and more. To avoid this some messaging apps use encryption allowing people to communicate privately.

Scammers are using loyalty point programs as the latest way to try to trick you. To keep you safe, here are the common signs to watch out for. 

City of Moreton Bay council says an investigation has been launched into how names, addresses, phone numbers and complaint details were accidentally published online.

The Australian Information Commissioner found TICA's controversial "virtual manager" service, which allows real estate agents to track tenants indefinitely, was subject to the same restrictions as the company's formal tenancy blacklist.

If you're among the majority of Australians with Facebook or Instagram accounts, your social activity on those platforms might be training Meta's artificial intelligence (AI) tools — and if you live in Australia, you can't say no.

The Australian Information Commissioner is suing Medibank over a 2022 hack that leaked sensitive data about millions of Australians.

Around 2 million Australians may be caught up in the Ticketmaster hack. Here's what you should be looking out for and how to protect yourself from hackers and scammers.

The details of millions of Optus customers were exposed when an offshore actor hacked its company database two years ago.