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Australian Clinical Labs privacy lawsuit set for two week trial in 2025

By Ryan Cropp ( July 4, 2024, 04:55 GMT | Insight) -- A major privacy lawsuit targeting pathology-services provider Australian Clinical Labs is set to go to trial in late 2025, a court has heard. At a hearing in the Federal Court of Australia today, Judge John Halley said the Australian privacy watchdog’s case against ACL will be heard over two weeks beginning on Sept. 29, 2025. The lawsuit, which was brought by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in November 2023, alleges that ACL failed to take reasonable steps to protect its customers’ data, which resulted in a major data breach in February 2022.A major privacy lawsuit targeting pathology-services provider Australian Clinical Labs, or ACL, is set to go to trial in late 2025, a court has heard....

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