Tag: OAIC

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...

Hit by ransomware? You really need to report it

Posted on   |  by David Batch
Opinion: The verdict is in: if you’ve been a victim of a ransomware attack, you will almost certainly be required to report the breach to the Privacy Commissioner and...

Ransomware rise a concern: Privacy Commissioner

Posted on   |  by Ben Grubb
Data breaches arising from ransomware incidents increased by 24 per cent in the first half of the year, prompting Australia’s Privacy Commissioner to warn that such attacks “are a...

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...