Australia: Office of Australian Information Commissioner's investigation into fastproperty.ai over alleged unlawful collection of personal information

Progress

Current status
concluded
14 May 2026 concluded
11 Apr 2025 under deliberation

Scope

Implementers
Australia
Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Data protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
ML and AI development
platform intermediary: other
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
data protection authority
Implementation Level
national

Timeline of events

14 May 2026
concluded

Office of Australian Information Commissioner closed investigation into fastproperty.ai finding no contravention of Privacy Act

On 14 May 2026, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) closed its investigation into fastproperty.ai, a map-based property research platform operated by Property Lovers. The OAIC found that fastproperty.ai does not collect, use…

Event type investigation
Action type closure
Government branch executive
Government body data protection authority
11 Apr 2025
under deliberation

Office of Australian Information Commissioner announced investigation into fastproperty.ai over alleged unlawful collection of personal information

On 11 April 2025, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) announced an investigation into Property Love's fastproperty ai platform after receiving complaints in January 2025 that the company was using the application to identify…

Event type investigation
Action type announcement
Government branch executive
Government body data protection authority