Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $50 million to Australian Facebook users affected by the Cambridge Analytica data breach, marking the largest privacy-related compensation package in Australian history.
Privacy professionals are experiencing unprecedented levels of stress in their roles, with nearly two-thirds reporting their jobs are more demanding than five years ago, according to a new global survey.
The Australian Government has awarded a $A6.4 million grant to establish a dedicated health sector cyber security network, marking healthcare as the first critical infrastructure sector to receive such targeted funding.
BankVic, an Australian mutual bank serving police, emergency, and health workers, has selected the NewgenONE platform from Newgen Software to streamline its day-to-day operations and offer superior member experiences.
Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service is being tapped to transform the management of technical document libraries at Main Roads Western Australia (Main Roads), the transport agency responsible for the state’s road network.
In 2017, the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands deployed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to determine how likely welfare recipients were to commit fraud. After analysing the data, the system developed biases: it flagged as “high risk” people who identified as female, young, with kids, and of low proficiency in the Dutch language.
AI is becoming increasingly pervasive in all aspects of life, and this trend will continue to shape our work and personal experiences in 2025. The growing fusion of physical and digital lives is transforming expectations, both for organisations and individuals.
AI and ML will play an increasingly central role in cybersecurity in 2025. They will be used to enhance threat detection and response (more effective anomaly detection), improve threat hunting (proactively identify vulnerabilities), combine security posture management to behavioural analytics to help monitor and secure large datasets in real-time, spotting risks such as data exfiltration attempts or unusual data access patterns.
Geospatial tech startup Terria has spun out of CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, after successfully closing a seed investment round with Australian deep tech investment fund, Main Sequence.
