There are over 330 million registered domains on the internet, and over 20 million new ones are registered every year. This can lead to some intense competition for some of the most recognisable words.

Anyone watching television over the Summer will have seen advertisements for the United Australia Party, led by Clive Palmer. In one version, a song is played with the lyrics ‘Australia ain't gonna cop it, no Australia's not gonna cop it, Aussies not gonna cop it any more.’

On 21 January 2019,  France’s data protection regulator, CNIL fined Google €50m ($80 million AUD) for breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Holman Webb Partner Tal Williams talks to Lawyers Weekly about the future of signing your name, discussing various possibilities such as e-sigs, fingerprinting and retina scans. 

On October 10, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury took the first step toward implementing the recently enacted Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) by publishing new regulations that empower the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to review transactions that were not previously subject to CFIUS scrutiny.

Even if you are, or were, an employee, the Criminal Law deals with such interference quite seriously.

The Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Enterprise Incentives No. 2) Act 2017 (Cth) amended the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) from 1 July 2018 to impose a prohibition on the enforcement of rights against a company including contractual termination rights arising on the occurrence of an insolvency event in relation to that company.

Readers will be aware that the mandatory data breach reporting requirements in Australia have been in operation since February this year. The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has since produced two quarterly reports on the matters notified. Some interesting statistics emerge.

When it comes to mitigating cyber security incidents, there is no single step that organisations can take that will guarantee the safety of their data or system performance. The Australian Cyber Security Centre has recommended eight mitigation strategies that organisation should implement as a baseline defence against targeted cyber intrusions, ransomware and malicious insiders. These strategies are known as the ‘Essential Eight’.

Published in the Health Law Bulletin June 2018 edition.