Trains models, in Australia
Each law's tag says when it binds: since in force proposed proposed
Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Reach Over Scraped Personal Informationsince 2 lines
Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), No. 119, 1988, Schedule 1, Australian Privacy Principles 3 and 6, read with s. 6 · Read the law's page
- Do not collect personal information, including personal information scraped from a public website, unless it is reasonably necessary for one or more of the entity's functions or activities.
- Do not use or disclose personal information collected for one purpose for another purpose, including model training, unless the individual consented or an Australian Privacy Principle 6.2 exception applies.
Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), Part 10.7, Unauthorised Access to Restricted Datasince 2 lines
Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), Schedule (the Criminal Code), Part 10.7, ss. 476.2, 478.1 · Read the law's page
- Do not cause access to, or modification of, data held in a computer where that data is restricted by an access control system and you are not entitled to cause the access, knowing the access is unauthorised.
- Reading a public, unauthenticated page without defeating any access control has not itself been held to violate this section.
Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), Circumvention of Access Control Technological Protection Measures (sections 10(1), 116AN to 116AQ and 132APC)since 2 lines
Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), No. 63, 1968, ss. 116AN to 116AQ · Read the law's page
- Do not do an act that results in the circumvention of an access control technological protection measure protecting a work or other subject-matter, meaning a device, product, technology or component that in the normal course of its operation controls access to it, if you know, or ought reasonably to know, that the act would have that result, unless you have the permission of the copyright owner or exclusive licensee.
- Do not manufacture, import, distribute, offer to the public, provide or communicate a circumvention device for a technological protection measure, or provide or offer a circumvention service for one, when you know, or ought reasonably to know, that it is one.
Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), Fair Dealing Exceptions and No Text-and-Data-Mining Exceptionin force1 line
Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), No. 63, 1968, ss. 10, 40, 41, 41A, 42 · Read the law's page
- A use of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is not infringing if it is a fair dealing for research or study, criticism or review, parody or satire, or reporting news; training an AI model on copyrighted text does not fit any of these purposes as such, and no separate text-and-data-mining exception is available.
Government AI Safety Priorities and AI Governance Office (July 2026 policy announcements) — Mandatory Australian AI Standards in Developmentproposed0 lines
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, 'AI in Australia's Interests' speech, (announcing mandatory Australian Standards for AI and an Office of AI within the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet); Government announcement of five whole-of-government AI safety priorities, (Digital Duty of Care, privacy reform, workplace AI safety, consumer-law examination, government automated decision-making framework)