Partner Hayden Delaney of Brisbane legal firm, HopgoodGanim, discusses the Pound Road Medical Centre (PRMC) data breach case and summarises outcomes from The Commissioner’s inquiry. Complying with the laws governing this area is not difficult; most of the comments...
The large U.S. economy provides a perfect platform for us to learn about privacy. Why? Because a security flaw in a US business could affect Australia’s population many times over (see JP Morgan’s recent breach). Here’s what we can learn from one federal agency’s...
Multiple sources are reporting on the data breach that saw the private information of 10,000 asylum seekers made public online. This comes only weeks before new privacy laws take affect on March 12, 2014. Under the new laws serious and repeated interferences with...
The theme of this past week (as it should every week) is ‘Stay on top of your IT Security’. In response to the discovery of the Bourne Again shell (BASH) vulnerability, the Privacy Commissioner has issued a warning to all businesses to not ignore your obligations or...
This week saw a major privacy breach in Kansas City, USA. The dumping of hundreds of patient records into unsecure garbage bin could lead to millions of dollars in fines for the hospital. Our penalty system is a little different here in Australia, if you were the...
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has updated their guide to handling personal information security breaches. “Agencies and organisations have obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) to put in place reasonable security safeguards and to...
