Surveillance

• 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.

• Legislation needed to manage privacy & data abuse concerns of COVID-19 tracing app

  21st Apr 2020

  The COVID-19 tracing app needs a strong legal framework to safeguard our rights and privacy, says the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA).

• What solicitors should tell their personal injury clients about surveillance

  19th Mar 2020

  Tom Goudkamp OAM explains what legal advisors should tell their personal injury clients about insurer surveillance. If clients are truthful with doctors, medico-legal experts and their lawyers, surveillance will not harm them, and may even help their cases. Tom explains that the opportunity for insurers to ambush clients in court is now limited.

• A free press and freedom of speech are fragile rights

  13th Jun 2019

  Greg Barns reflects on last week's police raids of the homes and workplaces of journalists and what this could mean for freedom of speech and freedom of the media.