Anneka Frayne

• Are you hiring? Beware of illegal interview questions

  16th Mar 2023

  Director of Stacks Law Firm in Tamworth Anneka Frayne clarifies the boundaries around job interview questions, and provides resources and tactics for avoiding and dealing with illegal ones.

• Crackdown on facial recognition on social media

  4th Aug 2022

  Last year ‘Facebook shut down its face recognition system and deleted faceprints of more than one billion people after protests about privacy and misuse’ but ‘a commercial company that takes people’s personal data without permission from the internet and links it through such facial recognition technology for profit is in breach of privacy under Australian law,’ writes Anneka Frayne.

• Can your boss use electronic surveillance to monitor you when you’re working from home?

  14th Apr 2022

  The Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 (NSW) rules out undue intrusions and covert surveillance, but surveillance technologies are evolving faster than privacy laws – and booming. As many of us continue to work from home in the wake of the pandemic, Anneka Frayne ponders the issues.

• Tough new laws against image-based abuse

  10th Mar 2022

  Online abuse, including so-called ‘revenge porn’, is mostly conducted against women – and it’s on the rise. Anneka Frayne discusses the new penalties for perpetrators, as well as bullies, trolls and social media giants who publish defamatory material. 

• Defamation actions: the high cost of social media posts, comments and ‘likes’

  24th May 2018

  Seeking restitution for defamation in a world of social media.