Sparke Bytes - March 2025
20 March 2025| 
Hamish is an accomplished senior technology lawyer with more than 30 years’ experience advising clients on commercial issues and regulatory matters across the information technology and communication industries.
Hamish enjoys demystifying the complex interaction of technology and the law.
Jason is a senior technology lawyer with over 15 years’ experience advising clients in the information technology space, including in relation to information technology procurement, data, privacy, digital infrastructure, telecommunications and information security related issues.
Welcome to the second edition of Sparke Bytes, a quarterly publication where we explore the latest developments in the rapidly evolving fields of technology, privacy, artificial intelligence, and cyber. In this issue we:
- examine various privacy, security, and regulatory issues associated with the use of DeepSeek, and other AI products
- consider the Australian Government's response to the Optus outage
- highlight the surge in cybercrime and emphasise the importance of progressive cyber security laws
- discuss what AI means for contract procurement managers
- explore compliance issues for organisations using cookies and tracking pixels
- deep dive into data scraping and AI, and
- consider best practice handling of the personal information of employees.
Our Technology, Cyber & Privacy team has extensive experience in helping you navigate the dynamic technology, data protection and privacy sectors. We act for a broad range of corporate and government clients across various industries including the financial services, energy and resources, health, manufacturing and consumer sectors.
We hope you find this publication insightful. If you have topics that you would like to see in our next quarterly update, please don't hesitate to contact one of our senior team.
