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Privacy Commissioner reports on Department of Immigration and Border Protection's data breach
The Australian Privacy Commissioner has released a report into the Department of Immigration and Border Protection having breached the privacy of asylum seekers in February 2014 Partner Michael Pattison and Associate Priyanka Nair report on the Commissioners findings and the lessons for all ...
Landmark Productivity Commission report on data availability and use
The Productivity Commission has released a landmark draft report on the ability of individuals businesses and government to access and use data in Australia The report criticises Australias historically conservative approach to data use and proposes a fundamental and systematic change to the way ...
What you need to know about mandatory data breach notification
In response to the rising number of cyberattacks, new legislation has been introduced that proposes a mandatory notification regime that will take effect from February next year. ...
The hack back: The legality of retaliatory hacking
In circumstances where government departments and law enforcement agencies are unable or unwilling to effectively respond to cybercrime, organisations are increasingly questioning whether or not they have or ought to have a a right to 'hack back' as an offensive retaliatory measure. ...
Where are all the data breach class actions in Australia?
Class actions arising out of data breaches have been common in the US for some time but in Australia were yet to see a plaintiff bring such an action successfully In some ways this is unsurprising Despite the fact that data breaches are now commonplace and that class action law firms are ...
ASIC Corporate Plan puts cyber resilience high on the agenda
ASIC's latest Corporate Plan has put cyber resilience high on the agenda ...
Double trouble: How to handle a data breach involving more than one organisation
Where multiple entities jointly hold personal information compromised in a data breach only one of those entities will need to comply with the assessment and notification requirements under the Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme NDB Scheme That is compliance by one entity will be taken to constitute ...
The devil in the detail - observations on the scope of CDR data and the new Privacy Safeguards
While the Consumer Data Right CDR regime is likely to benefit businesses by increasing access to greater consumer data and customers by increasing choice and competition the draft legislation leaves a lot of the details to be finalised at a later date primarily through the Australian Competition and ...
Incoming Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme
There is no current legal obligation under the Privacy Act to notify either the Privacy Commissioner or affected individuals where you suffer a data breach. However, mandatory data breach notification laws will take effect in Australia from 22 February 2018. ...
OAIC concludes investigation into Precedent Communications
The OAIC has concluded its investigation into Precedent Communications following a massive data breach that rocked the Australian Red Cross Blood Service ...