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Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare: Navigating Legal And Regulatory Challenges
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising healthcare, offering transformative potential in diagnostics, treatment planning, and patient care. However, its rapid integration into health practice presents significant legal, regulatory, and ethical challenges. This article explores emerging technologies and provides insights into the current regulatory landscape and key risk areas associated with AI in healthcare.
Australia Technology
BN
Barry Nilsson
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Employ­ers Ban­ning AI Smart Glass­es From The Workplace
As wearable AI technology becomes more prevalent, employers face critical decisions about whether to ban smart glasses in the workplace. This analysis explores the privacy, cybersecurity, and workplace surveillance risks associated with AI-enabled eyewear, while examining the legal framework for regulating their use. Two important exceptions—disability accommodations and workplace safety—complicate what might otherwise be a straightforward prohibition.
Australia Employment
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Swaab
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South Australia’s AI Royal Commission: The Terms Of Reference Are Here. Is Your Organisation Ready?
South Australia's Royal Commission into Artificial Intelligence has released its Terms of Reference, outlining a comprehensive examination of how the state can harness AI's economic and social benefits while managing associated risks. The inquiry will investigate policy frameworks, workforce impacts, education adaptation, and regulatory settings needed to support responsible AI development and deployment.
Australia Government
PA
Piper Alderman
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Australia's Updated Financial Innovation Strategy
The Australian Government has unveiled its Financial Innovation Strategy, introducing a new Financial Innovation Committee and overhauling the Enhanced Regulatory Sandbox framework to better support emerging businesses testing innovative financial products. The strategy encompasses reforms across consumer data rights, digital assets, tokenised infrastructure, and regulatory frameworks designed to position Australia as a leader in financial innovation.
Australia Finance
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K&L Gates LLP
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Australia | When Hardware Matters: Computer-implemented Inventions After Aristocrat
Following a landmark Australian Federal Court decision, IP Australia has updated its guidance on patentable subject matter for computer-implemented inventions. The first Patent Office decision applying this new approach reveals critical distinctions in how technical features must be claimed to secure patent protection for software-based innovations in mining and industrial applications.
Australia IP
SF
Spruson & Ferguson
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South Australian Royal Commission Into Artificial Intelligence: What Businesses Need To Know Now
South Australia has announced a Royal Commission into Artificial Intelligence, set to commence in October 2026 and deliver findings by July 2027. The inquiry will examine AI's economic and social impacts across policy, education, public services, workforce transformation, and infrastructure. Businesses using or developing AI should prepare for potential regulatory reforms and consider engaging with the inquiry process.
Australia Technology
PA
Piper Alderman
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Using AI In PIC Proceedings? Disclosure And Verification Are Essential
The Personal Injury Commission of New South Wales has issued its first decision addressing the use of generative AI in legal proceedings, establishing clear expectations for disclosure and verification when AI tools are employed. In Sentinel Community Services Pty Ltd v Clark Chesaites, an employer's undisclosed use of AI resulted in incorrect case citations and irrelevant statutory references, prompting the Commission to emphasize that compliance with AI disclosure rules applies equally to self-represented
Australia Litigation
BP
Bartier Perry
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The Investment Landscape For Space Technology In NSW And Australia
Once the domain of government agencies, today the global space landscape is increasingly driven by private organisations pursuing a more entrepreneurial and commercial utilisation of space. We have come to depend on space-enabled technologies, such as satellite-based services, for everyday activities including navigation, telecommunications, weather forecasting, emergency management, banking, mining, agriculture and transportation.
Australia Strategy
BP
Bartier Perry
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