Tag: Carly Kind

Qantas escapes regulator over Salesforce data breach

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s privacy watchdog has signalled she won’t pursue Qantas over a 2025 data breach that exposed the data of 5.7 million customers to hackers, who later published it on...

Health firms breached Privacy Act with online tracking

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Two healthcare services breached privacy laws handing over “incredibly intimate details” of millions of people accessing their websites to Meta, TikTok and Google for years, the privacy commissioner has...

OAIC backlog deepens as privacy complaints surge

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australians are flooding the privacy watchdog with complaints faster than it can resolve them, with caseloads surging 73 per cent in less than a year despite it finalising 38...

Clinical Labs fined $5.8m in Privacy Act first

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
Australian Clinical Labs has been fined $5.8 million over a 2022 data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 223,000 people and saw the Office of the...

Privacy commissioner hits back at PC’s privacy retreat

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Australia’s privacy commissioner says walking back long-overdue privacy reforms and loosening existing laws after a years-long push to strengthen them would be like “throwing out the baby with the...