OpenAI must explain action taken to stop AI hacking Australians’ private data, chair of federal inquiry says
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A federal inquiry pulling OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google into public hearings over Australians’ private data is another step toward hard regulatory expectations on model access and logging. If you operate AI systems touching consumer data in regulated markets, assume you’ll need auditable answers to “who accessed what, when, via which model” sooner than your current compliance roadmap likely plans for.
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