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EFA warns on new breach laws

Australia’s new mandatory data breach notification scheme has been tentatively welcomed by digital rights advocates, while new research has found many businesses are not ready or even aware of...

Victoria’s new data sharing regime

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Legislation outlining a new data-sharing regime within the Victorian government with the aim of improving policy-making has been introduced to Parliament. The Victorian Data Sharing Bill 2017 aims to...

Turnbull’s new face biometric plan

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Commonwealth plans to incorporate state government drivers’ licence photos in its facial recognition systems used by law enforcement is a “massive privacy overreach,” digital rights advocates have said. Prime...

Privacy code just a ‘smokescreen’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government’s planned privacy code for the public sector is a “smokescreen” to cover its series of failures in the space, and has no hope of preventing similar failures...

Vic privacy chief slams drug tests

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian Privacy Commissioner has slammed the federal government’s plan to “randomly” drug test new welfare recipients, as the scheme faces a tough path through Parliament. Victorian Commissioner for...

Privacy code to cover drug data

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Federal Government has agreed to the creation of a new privacy code to apply to the Australian Public Service following a series of high-profile and embarrassing data debacles...

DTO slows national identity plan

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has applied the brakes to its national identity framework plans. In a letter sent to the 70-odd organisations that replied to its Request for...

Privacy lobby digs trench, sets gun

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
An Australia Card scale row is brewing between the government and the Australian Privacy Foundation over the proposed national digital identity regime. The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF), which was...

Startups must get privacy in order

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s privacy czar has emerged from a near death experience imposed by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott to launch Privacy Awareness Week and warn tech startups of coming scrutiny,...