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Australia High Court hears submissions on Cambridge Analytica data breaches

JURIST

The Australian Information Commissioner commenced the action against Facebook in the Federal Court in 2020 for data breaches committed in 2014 and 2015, which has been appealed to the High Court. As the case commenced in 2020, Facebook may be penalized under the previous regime.

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New rules on service outside Australia for the Federal Court of Australia

Conflict of Laws

Leave to serve turned on three conditions: the court had subject matter jurisdiction, the claim was of a kind mentioned in the rules, and the party had a prima facie case for any or all of the relief claimed: FCR r 10.43(4). That rule set out pigeonholes or connecting factors that are familiar grounds of direct jurisdiction.

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