Until recently, businesses could cover up data security breaches because they were not under a legal duty to disclose them to anyone. However, the enactment of data breach notification laws in many parts of the Western world has uncovered the misuse of data by organisations in a variety of ...
The advancement of technology has brought risks of data breaches worldwide. While we’re not seeing any sort of global authority on how to handle data breaches, countries across the globe are taking various forms of action. Some countries are making national laws, and others are making new sta...
A data breach notification scheme wasrecommendedby the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Intelligence and Security in February 2015, prior to Australia's mandatory data-retention laws being implemented. Under the data-retention laws, approved law-enforcement agencies are able to warrantlessly access two y...
disclosure lawsData breach notification and disclosure laws are emerging around the globe. The following article and table examine the specifics of data breach notification frameworks in multiple jurisdictions. Over the year of 2008, Alana Maurushat of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, with ...
Australia could have tough new data protection laws in place this year in an urgent response to a cyberattack that stole from a telecommunications company the personal data of 9.8 million customers, the attorney-general said Thursday. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said the government would make "ur...
8. Updates to the data protection notices We may change this Data Protection Notice, from time to time. The “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this Data Protection Notice indicates when this Data Protection Notice was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised...
Most of the other US states and the federal government have enacted similar laws, as has the European Union. And as data breach after data breach has been reported, the general public has slowly started to become aware of the IT industry's dirty little secret: We're really quite bad at ...
Data Breach Notification Laws Data breach notification requirements following loss of personal information have been enacted by governments around the globe. They vary by jurisdiction, but almost universally include a “safe harbour” clause. Learn More Data Sovereignty Compliance There are more than 10...
Organisations that operate in multiple jurisdictions may have notification obligations under other breach notification schemes, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – see my articleGDPR: Change to European privacy laws and its impact on Australian businesses. ...
financial institutions; • it is requested by an enforcement, regulatory or Government agency such as the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner ("OAIC") or police; or • it is a necessary part of an investigation following a complaint or incident (such as a potential data breach...