Tag: Angelene Falk

Data breaches on the rise in second half of 2021

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
There was an uptick in data breaches in the second half of 2021 but an overall drop compared to the previous year, according to the privacy watchdog’s end of...

Banks get CDR privacy ‘bedrock’ tick from regulator

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s privacy watchdog found no areas of high privacy risk in an assessment of the Big Four banks’ Consumer Data Right policies and practices but did identify at least...

Govt floats industry-funded model for privacy office

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has floated the idea of an industry-funded model for the nation’s privacy office, which has faced concerns of under-resourcing despite an increasing workload for several years....

Privacy breach: 7-Eleven secretly scanned customer faces

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
7-Eleven violated its customers’ privacy by secretly collecting their facial images at 700 stores over the last year for demographic profiling and data verification, the regulator has determined after...

Privacy tsar wants police blocked from COVID check-in app data

Posted on   |  by Ben Grubb
Australia’s privacy watchdog says police access to COVID-19 check-in app histories has the potential to “undermine” contact tracing efforts and should be prohibited. The Office of the Australian Information...
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