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The NAID-Australasia Conference marked the appointment of a new chairperson for the committee. 

Former committee chair, Van Karas of Shred-X, will still remain active on the committee as past-chair as well as taking a seat on the global NAID board of directors.  Van will be the first to occupy the seat on the global board created specifically to represent the interest of the region.

Australia's new Privacy Commissioner, Mr Timothy Pilgrim, today said that he looks forward to the challenges and opportunities presented by his new role.

"I am honoured to have been appointed as Australian Privacy Commissioner, and see it as a great opportunity to build on the work of previous commissioners in ensuring that Australians' privacy is protected," Mr Pilgrim said.

Australians are falling victim to online identity theft at an alarming rate, a new survey suggests, costing them an estimated $1.3 billion over the past year.

The survey of 2500 Australians found about one in 10 had fallen victim to online identity theft in the past 12 months.

THE private details of Queensland Health patients are at risk of being lost or stolen and there are inadequate plans to deal with a major security breach.

But the troubled department is racing to implement computerised medical records.

A healthy paranoia set in among dozens of Brisbane residents who attended the Queensland Police Museum yesterday, where a detective warned criminal gangs were on the hunt for their identities.

Identity-related fraud was the fastest growing crime in the world and resulted in the loss of $4 billion in Australia in 2008-2009, museum guest speaker Detective Rod Shelton warned during the public lecture at Roma Street police headquarters.

A Senate inquiry into the adequacy of privacy laws will soon begin, sparked by recent online privacy controversies and the government's plans to snoop on web users' internet communications.

The inquiry, pushed through by the Greens, will examine privacy protections and data collection on social networking sites and the data collection activities of private companies and government agencies. A report will be delivered by October 20.