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Australian Ethical mulls Facebook divestment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... Analytica scandal in early 2018. "Cambridge Analytica brought up a broad range of issues and raised a lot of concerns about privacy, manipulative advertising, mental health and even copyright issues," he said. Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal ...

AustralianSuper members exposed to security breach

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 JAN 2019
... any vulnerabilities. "All affected members have been contacted and the fund has reported this account activity to the Privacy Commissioner at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)." The super fund declined to further comment on ...

FASEA clarifies adviser exam rules

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
... FASEA will also revise the Corporations Act unit to include other legal obligations such as Anti-Money Laundering, Privacy Act 1988 and Tax Practitioners Board requirements. CPD FASEA has reduced the number of CPD hours advisers are required to complete ...

Blockchain can power internal systems: Digital Asset

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... which can also equally benefit from the technology that we are talking about here where you need to impose separation, privacy or confidentiality of certain aspects, highly-granular conditioning in terms of who is authorized to do what, with what, to ...

CommInsure, TAL engaged in troubling conduct: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... troubling." This involved a series of wrong decisions made by TAL staff and "very troubling breaches" of the insured's privacy - which engaged external investigators and excessive use of surveillance, bullying tactics and offensive communications, misrepresentation ...

IMF Bentham eyes potential Facebook, Cambridge Analytica goldmine

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... Ireland and Facebook Inc. The complaint relates to alleged breaches of the Australian Privacy Principles - as per the Privacy Act 1988 - in that Facebook users' personal information was improperly shared with a third party. In late March, Facebook became ...

Adviser regulation lacking a professional body, RC hears

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... misleading, deceptive, dishonest and fraudulent conduct to obtain life insurance for a client. He also breached clients' privacy on numerous instances. The AFA found out about Tindall's ban when another member rang the AFA's office about ...

PwC urges super trustees to fast-track GDPR compliance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regime must fast-track the necessary steps to comply with new, stringent privacy laws, PwC warns. Taking effect on 25 May 2018, GDPR applies to any business established in the EU and Australian businesses ...

Facebook scandal raises ESG concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... how companies like these are run," he explained. "Community expectations are shifting and people are thinking more about privacy, and funds have an opportunity, if they have a very bottom-up approach, to provide valuable analysis in that regard." According ...

Siri and Alexa: The future of banking?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... consumers, banks and other third party service providers will need to balance the convenience of these experiences with data privacy. Customers will need to determine how much data they really want to share," he said. In November 2017 NAB announced about ...