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Ten Tips to Protect Your Customers’ Personal Information
This ten tip guide will help you comply with the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) when you handle your customers’ personal information. On Wednesday March 12, 2014 the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) began enforcing the Privacy Amendment...
TeleChoice makes a binding commitment after breach
Earlier in the year Australian media covered a story of personal information scattered in Victorian bushland. 6 months later Telechoice admitted that it had not complied with their obligation to take reasonable steps towards securing and destroying personal...
Letting go of office clutter..time for a cleanout?
The office is a busy space, usually as cluttered as the multitude of ideas and to-dos that are bouncing around in your head, but mess simply isn’t efficient. It’s called an organisation for a reason, & let’s not forget electronic storage such as the cloud means...
iappANZ Summit 2016
Shred-X is a proud sponsor of iappANZ which is the Australia New Zealand Chapter of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. This year’s Summit, ‘Trust in Privacy’, is on Monday 14 th November. Shred-X encourage you to attend this event for the latest...
Secure Destruction that Won’t Cost the Earth
Environmental sustainability is a hot topic in all industries. At Shred-X, we are committed to minimising our environmental impact in all areas of the business. Each year Shred-X destroy and recycle over 30,000 tonnes of paper which is then used as virgin pulp...
Total Facilities Expo 2015
In two months time we’ll be attending the Total Facilities Exhibition & Conference. This year it’s in Sydney’s new Convention Centre on Glebe Island. Last year at the 2014 Total Facilities Expo in Melbourne we answered many questions about the Privacy Law Reform...
Metadata Breaches Under Proposed Bill
Australia’s move to force internet and phone providers to store customers’ records for two years has our Privacy Commissioner Tim Pilgrim fearing a metadata breach. Sydney Morning Herald has published a comprehensive article on the impact of the Telecommunications...
Welcome to Privacy Awareness Week 2015
Shred-X is a proud partner of Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) 2015. PAW is an initiative of the Asia-Pacific Privacy Authorities, held every year to promote awareness of privacy issues and the importance of the protection of personal information. This year, PAW is being...
Privacy is Good for Business Infographic
Taken from the Data Privacy Day website, this infographic shows why Privacy is Good for Business. Spearheaded by America’s National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), Data Privacy Day began in the United States and Canada in January 2008 as an extension of the Data...
New Research Conducted by Intel Security
Intel Security surveyed 1,200 Australians to gauge opinions, awareness and attitudes surrounding privacy throughout our daily lives. Only 7% of the 1,200 Australians surveyed could recall ‘The Privacy Act’ and only 1% mentioned the recently publicised metadata laws......
Mandatory Data Breach Notification Scheme Before Year End
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...
Privacy Awareness Week (PAW2015) Events
Tickets are now on sale for Privacy Awareness Week events. Book early to avoid missing out. Monday 4 May 2015 PAW business breakfast – SOLD OUT Focussed on Privacy – living in the future, the PAW business breakfast will explore issues around the intersection of...
Privacy Complaints Down
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...
Australian Business in the Firing Line
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....
Australian Privacy Principles & the Real Estate Industry
Lachlan McKnight from Legal Vision discusses the impact of the Australian Privacy Principles on the local Real Estate Industry … affecting its capacity for direct marketing to consumers, and introducing huge penalties for violations of the APPs. Late last year we...
