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This paper concerns the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and efforts by Australia’s privacy regulator—the Australian Information Commissioner—to hold Facebook to account in court. In proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia in which the Australian regulator alleges breaches of Australian privacy laws, Facebook has argued that it is not even subject to the jurisdiction of the Australian court. The Court rejected that argument, which Facebook unsuccessfully appealed. In September, Facebook won special leave to appeal to our top court, the High Court of Australia. This paper argues that Facebook’s appeal is misconceived. The Australian court was justified in asserting its long-arm jurisdiction over the American company, as a matter of policy and principle.
Speaker:
Michael Douglas is a Senior Lecturer at UWA Law School at the University of Western Australia, and a Consultant at Perth litigation firm, Bennett. Michael has expertise in the conflict of laws, media law, and private law. He is co-author of the text Nygh's Conflict of Laws in Australia with the Chief Justice of New South Wales, among others. In 2019, he was a visiting scholar at the Hague Conference on Private International Law. In 2018, he met Sam Beswick as a visiting PhD student at Harvard Law School.
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