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Privacy safeguards useless without funding

Australia’s privacy office “urgently” needs more funding to properly conduct its oversight role of the COVIDSafe contact tracing app, with Labor calling for three standalone commissioners to also be...

COVIDSafe laws get a new framework

14 May 2020 | by Denham Sadler

Legislation enshrining privacy protections around the COVID-19 contact tracing app into law is set to be passed by the Senate on Thursday with bipartisan support after government agreed on...

Consumer Data Right gets its road rules

11 May 2020 | by Denham Sadler

The privacy and competition watchdogs have outlined how they plan to enforce the rules and laws surrounding the Consumer Data Right, which will be launched into the banking sector...

Privacy chief takes Facebook to Federal Court

10 March 2020 | by James Riley

Social network giant Facebook is facing the prospect of fines of more than $1 billion in Australia in relation to privacy breaches that date back six years to the...

Privacy chief calls for more funds

23 October 2019 | by Denham Sadler

A lack of funding has led to increasing delays and backlogs at the national privacy and information watchdog, with skyrocketing FOI and privacy complaints. The Office of the Australian...

OAIC consults on CDR privacy rules

21 October 2019 | by Denham Sadler

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has begun consulting on the privacy rules surrounding the government’s controversial Consumer Data Right, with plans to reach out to FinTechs and...

OAIC slims down data breach reports

29 August 2019 | by Denham Sadler

Only two reports will be produced annually on the notifiable data breach scheme by the government’s privacy authority in future in the wake of ongoing resourcing issues hanging over...

Extra roles take new OAIC funding

11 April 2019 | by James Riley

A funding boost for the Office of the Information Commissioner in this year’s budget would be used to underwrite new responsibilities, rather than addressing ongoing under-resourcing, Senate estimates has...

Struggling OAIC gets a $25m boost

25 March 2019 | by Denham Sadler

The national privacy and information regulator would get a $25 million funding boost and stronger penalties would be introduced for tech giants that oversee data breaches under a government policy...

OAIC is stretched to the limit

20 February 2019 | by James Riley

The government’s data and privacy authority is in urgent need of additional funding to address a backlog of important work, a senate estimates hearing has been told. Australian Information...

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