Most want govt to do more to protect privacy
Only 40 per cent of Australians think their personal data is well protected by government.
28 September, 2020
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Data notification law starts today – as Privacy Commissioner says goodbye
Timothy Pilgrim, retired public servant The world is very different now, but many of us don’t know it. From 22 February 2018 Australia has a new Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) regimen. Under the laws, passed in 2017 as the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act, companies and government agencies have to tell people if lost […]
21 February, 2018
Open data – too much sharing, too little care
Who’s reading your health information now? There can be benefits from sharing health and other personal information among health care professionals and researchers. But any such sharing must be based on an understanding of potential risks. It must occur only within an effective legal framework, with controls appropriate for those risks. A ‘Trust me, I’m […]
8 January, 2018
Privacy watchdog finds Australians worried over social media protections
By Julian Bajkowski The federal government’s privacy and data watchdog has delivered the biggest stocktake of community attitudes to privacy issues in five years, revealing people are more worried about the conduct of online services and social media providers than identity theft and fraud. The report from the Office the Australian Information Commissioner has found […]
11 October, 2013
Public trust of privacy protections in government slipping
By Julian Bajkowski Public trust in how well the government handles the privacy of personal information that it holds has slipped over the last five years, according to new research released by the Office of the Information Commissioner. The OAIC’s latest Community Attitudes to Privacy report has found that trust in government agencies on the […]
11 October, 2013
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