Privacy and Data: are you ready for the road ahead?
Australia is modernising its Privacy Law. That’s going to be a major transformation for all stakeholders with key recommendations for strengthening the Notifiable Data Breach scheme, removing the small business exemption, establishing GDPR style data subject rights and a statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy. Lawyers are saying that AI is an opportunity not a threat. Walk away with a good understanding of how chatbots work and their implications for the legal profession. WEB235N01AZ
Description
Attend and earn 2 CPD units in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair Olga Ganopolsky General Counsel Privacy & Data Macquarie Group
10.00am to 11.00am Transformation of Australia’s Privacy Law is underway: several key recommendations include:
- Strengthening the Notifiable Data Breach scheme
- Removing the small business exemption
- Establishing GDPR style data subject rights
- Establishing a statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy
Presented by Katherine Sainty, Sainty Law
11.00am to 12.00pm AI chatbots and Implications for the Legal Profession – Take the Tour
- Step though demonstrations of Chatbots: ChatGPT, Google Bard, Microsoft Bing
- Are they accurate?
- Who owns the copyright and licensing?
- What are the regulatory implications?
- What is the change in value of work?
Presented by Patrick Fair, Patrick Fair Associates
Presenters
Olga Ganopolsky
Olga Ganopolsky is Macquarie Group’s General Counsel - Privacy and Data and is versed in the subject of data protection with extensive experience in detailed privacy policy challenges, law reform and ongoing management of legal and strategic issues. Much of Olga’s work involves implementing new technologies and addressing privacy requirements in an increasingly complex co-regulatory and sometimes contentious environment. Most recently this has included work on implementations of GDPR and the reforms to Security of Critical Infrastructure Act and related regimes, artificial intelligence, CPS 234, Covid-19 related matters, the Consumer Data Right and addressing cross border issues considering the Schrems II Decision of the European Court of Justice and the newly updated Standard Contractual Clause as approved by the Commission.
Katherine Sainty
Katherine Sainty is the founder of Sainty Law, a commercial law firm with specialist expertise in the digital industries and not for profit sector. For many years Katherine has advised major media, technology and communications companies as well as government. Her current focus is advising clients on legal and regulatory issues and strategies to succeed in the expanding digital economy. Clients include digital media companies, broadcasters, ISP and IT companies, content creators and not for profit organisations. She is a frequent commentator and speaker in public forums on digital business issues, most recently on broadband as the driver of the digital economy and the challenges and opportunities that Social Media offers business. Katherine was formerly a partner at Allens and has been recognised as pre-eminent in her field by her peers (in Chambers Global, The World's Leading Lawyers).
Patrick Fair
Patrick Fair is the principal of Patrick Fair Associates, an Adjunct Professor at the School of Information Technology, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment at Deakin University, the Chairman of the Communications Security Reference Panel at the Communications Alliance, a member of the IoT Alliance of Australia Security Workstream Member Technical Advisory Standing Committee auDA and General Advisor to and an author of LexisNexis Practical Guidance Cybersecurity, Data Protection and Privacy.