The latest statistics on our attitudes, demonstrate how important privacy is to Australians. The “Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy” survey (ACAPS) has just been released. The survey is run by the Office of the Information Commissioner.
The Australian Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind, has been investigating rent tech for the past year.
Prospective tenants are currently being required to hand over large amounts of personal information, to secure rental housing. Last month a determination was made against the rent tech platform 2Apply. Prospective tenants are currently being required to hand over large amounts of personal information, to secure rental housing. Last month a determination was made against the rent tech platform 2Apply. The Commissioner found that they collected excessive amounts of information and did so by unfair means.
The recent appeal decision by the Administrative Review Tribunal was to allow Bunnings to continue use of facial recognition technology (FRT). However, the Tribunal based the decision on a unique reason for the use of FRT, which fell within a statutory exception.
It’s an unpleasant topic, but…the recent survey by Exabeam quotes this staggering figure of 84% of Australian respondents expecting insider threats to grow, during the next 12 months. Traditionally, thinking around security and privacy threats are that they would come from an external party, but that’s now changing.
All organisations rely on third-party vendors, suppliers, and service providers to handle essential business functions. While outsourcing can improve efficiency and reduce costs, it also introduces significant data privacy and security risks.
The statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy comes into effect on June 10th. The tort creates a right for individuals to sue organisations, and individuals, for serious invasions of privacy.
The Privacy Commissioner recently handed down findings from a privacy investigation into web-scraping company, Property Lovers Pty Ltd.
Amongst other breaches, the Commissioner found that…
Many of the reforms will commence almost immediately. The Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 means changes to the Privacy Act 1988 and several other Acts, to introduce a range of measures to protect the privacy of individuals
After the Optus, Medibank and Latitude hacks many questions were asked about why organisations were holding data in such large quantities, and for so long. Considerable reputational damage occurred from those cyber incidents…
If you’re delivering digital transformation, and haven’t carried out a privacy impact assessment, you may be risking the success of your project. An example is in the finding by the Australian Information Commissioner, against the convenience store 7-Eleven.