Author: Kayleen Manwaring

Dr Kayleen Manwaring is a Senior Lecturer, School of Taxation ＆ Business Law, UNSW. Prior to joining the School, Kayleen also taught law in the Business & Economics Faculty at Macquarie University. Until March 2012, she spent many years working as a commercial lawyer and in law firm management, in Sydney and London. Her work in practice primarily focused on technology acquisition and licensing, intellectual property, and communications. Her research interests lie at the intersection between emerging technologies, particularly information technology, and the law of contract, consumer protection and competition law, intellectual property law and corporations law. She has recently completed a major research project on the implications for consumer contracts of the Internet of Things and associated technologies. She teaches corporations and business associations law, intellectual property law and information technology law.

June 20, 2022July 19, 2022 by Zofia Bednarz

Insurance firms can skim your online data to price your insurance — and there’s little in the law to stop this

What if your insurer was tracking your online data to price your car insurance? Seems far-fetched, right? Yet there is predictive value in the digital traces we leave online. And insurers may use data collection and analytics tools to find our data and use it to price insurance services. Looking at several examples from customer loyalty schemes and social media, we found insurers can access vast amounts of consumer data under Australia’s weak privacy laws. Read More

March 19, 2020March 19, 2020 by Katharine Kemp

Australia’s privacy watchdog is taking Facebook to court. It’s a good start.

Katharine Kemp, UNSW and Kayleen Manwaring, UNSW On Monday, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) brought proceedings against Facebook in the Federal Court, asking the court to impose financial penalties for serious interference with the privacy of more than 300,000 Australians. To our knowledge, this is the first time the privacy regulator has… Read More