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OAIC weighs in on privacy aspects of Social Media Minimum Age regime
From 10 December 2025, age-restricted social media platforms must take 'reasonable steps' to prevent users under the age of 16 from having accounts. Although the social media minimum age (SMMA) regime ...
A step-by-step guide to assessing compromised data after a cyber incident
This guide is designed to help you address compromised data after a cyber incident, and includes 11 key steps that cover what to do before, and after, an incident. ...
Cyber resilience and incident response in healthcare
Cyber incidents are disproportionately frequent in the healthcare sector—and their consequences are often more severe. The potentially life-threatening risk to patient care means that healthcare ...
One cyber incident, many breaches: first civil penalty under the Privacy Act
The Federal Court has approved Australian Clinical Labs' settlement agreement with the Australian Information Commissioner (the Commissioner) to pay a $5.8 million penalty, and a contribution of $400, ...
Government consults on expanding Australian financial services law to digital assets
After a long period of discussion about potential digital asset reform, the Treasury has released draft legislation—the Treasury Laws Amendment (Regulating Digital Asset, and Tokenised Custody, ...
The Allens AI Australian law benchmark
To cut through the hype and provide concrete insights, Allens has established an ongoing benchmarking process in consultation with Linklaters LLP. This allows us to systematically evaluate and track the progress of generative AI in answering legal questions under Australian law over time. ...
Food and beverage law bulletin 2025
Our 2025 Food and beverage law bulletin highlights key legal and regulatory updates, including ACCC recycling schemes, FSANZ Code changes, biosecurity measures, trade mark trends, ESG reforms, and greenwashing enforcement along with essential insights for compliance, brand protection and sustainability. ...
Digital horizons: harnessing the future of technology
Technology is driving a major transformation. The opportunities you seize and the risks you mitigate now will determine your business' future. ...
Cap table management: the perils of a large number of shareholders
2021 saw record levels of equity investment into Australian startups and scaleups. The abundance of equity capital being raised by Australian startups and scaleups from a diverse range of investors means that we frequently encounter proprietary companies with significant numbers of shareholders on their registers. ...
Featured founders
Last year was a busy one for our Allens Accelerate clients. We caught up with two founders whose businesses celebrated major milestones in 2021. ...