eCommerceNews: Orca Opti Launches Free AI Governance Tool for Australia

eCommerceNews Australia ran the launch of Opti Assist Free, ORCA Opti's free, sovereign AI governance assistant for Australian organisations. For commerce decision-makers, the story sharpens the customer-data angle: the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has made organisations accountable for personal information employees enter into commercial AI tools, and Privacy Act reforms have lifted the ceiling on serious breach penalties to the greater of USD $50 million, three times the benefit obtained, or 30 per cent of adjusted turnover.

The piece cites research showing 85.7 per cent of office-based knowledge workers now use AI at work, 72.8 per cent of them through personal accounts that employers cannot directly monitor. Opti Assist Free is positioned as the sovereign, employer-visible alternative that keeps customer information inside Australia, with no third-party AI providers in the data path and no training on customer data.

"Regulators have accepted that AI is inevitable. What they will not accept is organisations being unable to say where their data went, who used it, or which foreign model is now trained on it."

Kathryn Giudes, Founder & Managing Director, ORCA Opti

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