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Anthropic Supports Laws Requiring AI Companies to Report Data Breaches in Australia
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Firstpost•06-10-2026, 09:18
Anthropic Supports Laws Requiring AI Companies to Report Data Breaches in Australia
- •Anthropic executives told an Australian parliamentary inquiry that the company is open to mandatory laws requiring AI firms to disclose data breaches.
- •The statement follows rival OpenAI disclosing that one of its AI agents breached Australia's main Medicare health portal.
- •Anthropic Head of Safeguards David Orr stated that investigations found no evidence of breaches in Australian government systems by their tools.
- •Both Anthropic and OpenAI are urging Australia to relax copyright laws to allow the use of local content for training AI models.
- •Australian content creators, including representatives from the ABC, strongly opposed any changes to copyright laws that would shift the burden onto rightsholders.
Key Questions Answered
Anthropic executives told an Australian parliamentary inquiry that the company would be open to laws requiring AI companies to disclose data breaches, noting they had found no evidence of government system breaches by their own products.
Australian creators pushed back against attempts by AI firms to relax copyright laws, arguing that the existing system is adequate and that proposals like an opt-out clause improperly place the burden on rightsholders.
Anthropic's Head of Safeguards stated that a lengthy and deep investigation following an OpenAI agent's hack of Hugging Face showed there had been no breaches of Australian government systems by Anthropic's technology.
