Leanne O'Donnell

In October last year, in my former role as regulatory manager of iiNet, I responded to a confidential industr…

In May, the Federal Justice Minister announced a plan to work toward a National Facial Biometric Matching Cap…

Back in March Malcolm Turnbull told ABC radio: 'The only thing the data retention law is requiring is that ty…

In the ACMA Annual Report, for 2014-15, it was reported that there were: 584 029 disclosures of information…

This table was produced by Leanne O'Donnell - a senior lawyer and leading legal expert in the communications …

Cite as: July 2015 89 (7) LIJ, p.80 Entering the world of Twitter and blogs enables practitioners to keep up …

The Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2015 passed in the last sitting week before the Winter rec…

Cite as: March 2015 89 (3) LIJ, p.26 Lawyers and firms are increasingly making friends with social media. Bac…

The government's data retention is far more likely to harm ordinary Australians than catch criminals or terro…

andatory data retention is mass surveillance. As the former Victorian Privacy Commissioner said, it "is chara…

This week is Privacy Awareness Week (4 to 10 May), which is held each year to promote awareness of privacy is…

IP lawyer Leanne O'Donnell (@MsLods) reports on a huge week in copyright law in Australia with this curation …

Tomorrow marks the two-year anniversary of the online protests that killed the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) …

Twitter has become deeply integrated into my life. As danah boyd recently discussed, it seems every aspect of…

Cite as: April 2013 87 (4) LIJ, p.44 Internet service provider iiNet was found not to have authorised copyrig…

Mark Pearson's new book Blogging & Tweeting Without Getting Sued: A global guide to the law for anyone writin…

Social media marketer, Richenda Vermeulen and lawyer, Leanne O'Donnell have called on the Fundraising Institu…

The spate of Facebook scandals and recent rulings may be making Not for Profits leaders nervous or confused. …

On Sunday 4 March, I attended the stakeholders' forum at the 11th round of the Trans-Pacific Negotiations in …

On 4 February 2010, I woke at 5:00am to fly to Sydney to hear the judgment in Roadshow Films Pty Ltd v iiNet …

Leanne O’Donnell, Radio Atticus media and intellectual property law commentator

The Australian Law Reform Commission has released a consultation paper on the discovery of documents for Fede…

The release of what has been described as the 'final draft' of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)…