“Organisations need to recognise that an employee data breach carries legal risk similar to the breach of customer data. If an organisation’s response to a data breach is handled incorrectly, employees could file a class action lawsuit.” Whilst tailored to the...
The Government has agreed with a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) recommendation to introduce a mandatory data breach notification scheme before the end of the year. Consisting of six Liberal/National MPs and four Labor members, the...
Less than two weeks before Privacy Awareness Week, A Current Affair produces a damning report after finding shipping containers scattered in Victorian bushland. Sounds like ‘just another illegal dumping story’ however these containers contained personal information....
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has released its Annual Report for 2014–15 showing privacy complaints down despite consumer attentiveness to privacy increasing. In 2014–15 the OAIC: handled 14,640 phone enquiries answered 3409 written...
The National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) commissioned a study to analyse the amount of information left on recycled computers. For organisations the information left on the machine poses data breach problems which, after the new Privacy Laws come...
Could the next wave of privacy law reform give individuals the right to sue for serious invasions of privacy? Michael Park from Norton Rose Fulbright provides an overview of the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) discussion paper with 47 proposals for further...
