{"id":812513,"date":"2026-07-20T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/812513\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:57:10","slug":"victorian-premier-jacinta-allan-pledges-new-laws-to-restrict-ai-in-recruitment-worker-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/812513\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan pledges new laws to restrict AI in recruitment, worker surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Allan government has vowed to introduce the toughest workplace surveillance laws in the nation if it is re-elected, as it seeks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p60glu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">take on big tech<\/a> and centre its campaign pitch on workers\u2019 rights ahead of the November election.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Jacinta Allan on Monday announced Labor would ban inappropriate monitoring of employees and bolster human oversight of artificial intelligence used during staff recruitment, amid growing community anxiety about AI.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Allan government has vowed to introduce the toughest workplace surveillance laws in the nation if it is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-812513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}