Tag: Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

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...

APS tech leaders tapped for AI oversight committee

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Some of the most senior technology figures within the Australian Public Service have been tapped to sit on a new AI oversight body, adding another accountability layer to the...

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...

eSafety and OAIC team up for online safety crackdown

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Two of the federal government’s digital regulators will team up to enforce the social media age ban and new online age verification standards, as Australia pursues tougher online safety...

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...

OAIC pitches tool to slash data breach notifications

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Almost one-fifth of notifications through Australia’s data breaches notification regime could be averted if a self-assessment tool being pitched by the privacy watchdog is taken up by the federal...

The Gig Guide: OAIC gets its latest FOI commissioner

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
Lawyer and former chief counsel Alice Linacre has been appointed as Australia’s new permanent Freedom of Information Commissioner, replacing Toni Pirani. Ms Linacre, who will take up the role...