Australia's AI Boom Meets Its Privacy Reckoning

Attorney-General Michelle Rowland will today unveil sweeping privacy reforms that directly target the two fastest-moving tech trends in Australia: artificial intelligence and wearable devices. The draft legislation introduces a "right to erasure" allowing Australians to demand social media and search companies destroy their personal data, alongside a new identity verification framework called IDLock that will integrate with myGov accounts by 2027. The laws also...