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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...
Achieving ‘Enwhitenment’ with Australian Paper (Video)
Interested to know what happens to your confidential paper after it’s been shredded? Watch this short video series. Australian Paper, whose brands include Reflex, Tudor, and Queens Slipper, recently featured on the Going Bush TV Series. In the second of this special...
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...
NAID AAA Certification in Townsville
Shred-X Pty Ltd is pleased to announce that our Townsville branch has been awarded NAID’s AAA Certification. Located on Oonoonba Road we frequently service areas such as Mackay, Charters Towers, Ayr, Prosperine, Bowen and Ingham. NAID certification auditors verify...
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...
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...
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...
NAID AAA Certification in Canberra
Shred-X Pty Ltd is pleased to announce that our recently constructed Canberra branch has been awarded NAID’s AAA Certification. This is the eighth site to receive such certification and strengths our national footprint in the document destruction industry. The...
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......
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...
Amendments to Australian Privacy Principle Guidelines
Following in the footsteps of the update to the Guide to Securing Personal Information, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s (OAIC) has amended the Australian Privacy Principle Guidelines. Peter A. Clarke provides a comprehensive summary of the...
Total Facilities Expo 2014
We’ll be at the 2014 Total Facilities Exhibition & Conference in Melbourne and able to answer questions about the forthcoming Privacy Law Reform changes. Shred-X Document Destruction service many commercial sites across Australia, we can identify potential for...
U.S. Postal Service Jeopardised 13 million Customer Details
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...
Be Wary of ‘Anonymous Logins’ by Facebook
Anonymous Logins may not be ‘anonymous’ at all. According to the Forbes article the enhancement called ‘Anonymous Logins’ is designed to limit the passing of information onto third parties. In theory this is a positive step forward (for Facebook users) however the use...
World Password Day
“Our business is making sure nobody knows your business.”® As advocates in protecting privacy, your online vulnerabilities are important to us as well. World Password Day just past and we’d like to remind you of some simple steps you can do to protect yourself online....