Tag: OAIC

Angelene Falk reappointed as privacy tsar

Posted on   |  by Ben Grubb
Angelene Falk will spend at least another three years in her role as Australian Information and Privacy Commissioner after Attorney-General Michaelia Cash confirmed her reappointment. Ms Falk’s re-appointment through...

Two years later: Optus data breach probed

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s privacy regulator is formally investigating Optus for an alleged breach of customers’ privacy after the telco published nearly 50,000 customers’ personal information in the White Pages. It follows...

Uber breached 1.2m Australians’ privacy

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Uber breached 1.2 million Australian customers’ privacy when it failed to protect their data from a cyber attack in 2016, the Privacy Commissioner has determined after a three and...

Govt hunts for FOI Commissioner

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The search is on for a Freedom of Information Commissioner after the federal government provided $1 million in funding to establish the position, as the nation’s privacy office battles...

Govt fails to deliver COVIDSafe report

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has failed to produce a six-monthly report on the effectiveness of its COVIDSafe contact tracing app during the winter sitting of Parliament, despite promising to do...

Privacy office’s Clearview AI inquiry still going

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Australian privacy watchdog’s investigation into controversial facial recognition service Clearview AI is still ongoing nearly 12 months after it was launched, as the company faces legal action across...

Agencies getting COVIDSafe data by accident

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Law enforcement agencies have not accessed or decrypted any data from the federal government’s COVIDSafe app despite sometimes “incidentally” collecting information from it,  the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security...

Standalone FOI Commissioner to be appointed

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A standalone Freedom of Information Commissioner will be appointed to work alongside the Privacy Commissioner, with the government to finally meet its legislative requirements in separating the positions. Angelene...

FinTechs want AEC data for digital ID checks

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government will consider whether to grant expanded access to the electoral roll and the ASIC register in order to assist FinTechs in conducting digital identity checks. As part...
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