Inferred Consent Under the Spam Act for AI Agents
Inferred consent under the Spam Act is a defence, not a permission. Section 16(5) puts the evidential burden on the sender. Publication alone is not consent.
Inferred consent under the Spam Act is a defence, not a permission. Section 16(5) puts the evidential burden on the sender. Publication alone is not consent.
Google Preferred Sources is a loyalty lever, not a discovery lever: it changes what a reader sees only after that reader has already chosen your site.
An AI phone agent for an Australian trades business must connect four systems: job management, accounting, calendar and the phone line. ServiceM8 has an API.
Open the auto-renewal conversation about 60 days out. California requires a renewal notice 15 to 45 days ahead; Australia requires none until 1 July 2027.
Australian AI receptionist plans that publish a price start at A$99 a month and run to $1,299. Only two of the four we opened state Australian dollars.
Concurrency, not daily volume, is the binding constraint. Ten thousand dials a day needs about 17 lines on average and roughly 34 at an assumed 2x peak.
Australia has no AI Act. An outbound AI sales agent is governed by the Do Not Call Register Act 2006, the Spam Act 2003, the Privacy Act 1988 and the ACL.
Nearly every voice-AI vendor wins its own comparison page, and so do we. Seven tells reveal when the axes were chosen after the winner was already known.
The 2026 TCPA settlements changed no rule. Gen Digital’s US$9,950,000 fund was approved on 14 July 2026, and statutory damages remain $500 per violation.
Synthflow publishes one tier, enterprise contracts from $30,000 a year. Retell AI publishes pay-as-you-go voice at $0.07-$0.31 a minute. Zian AI is managed.