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.
Since the most recent review of the legislation, the Government announced privacy reforms which include increased responsibility for senior management in Australian organisations.
Cyber-bullying, image-based abuse, illegal and restricted online content are just some of the behaviours the eSafety Commissioner’s office deals with. I had…
The Review of the Privacy Act report was provided to the Federal Attorney-General in December 2022, and he has committed to bringing forward…
If your teams can’t tell you much about their privacy and IT security obligations, the answer is no. Privacy and security obligations involve considerably more than just knowing what phishing is.
I find the phrase “human error” which is often used after a privacy breach, very disappointing. Somehow there’s acceptance that no one can do anything about “human error”. In fact, humans have been coming up with solutions to human error, forever.