The submissions made to the review emphasized the need for more effective enforcement mechanisms to increase individuals' control over their personal information and as a form of deterrence. This article reviews the recent amendments to thePrivacy Actand explains their effect. It comments upon the ...
The Australian government is set for a review of the Privacy Act soon, and has this week been pushing for a sweeping ban of children from social media (with an age limit yet to be determined). Meta’s rival X (previously Twitter) performs the same AI training with posts and...
Data privacy laws in Australia are changing for the first time since 1988 in the wake of high-profile data breaches. Damien Murray, Lead Solution Engineer at Salesforce explains why businesses need to act now to comply with the updates or risk their bottom line and reputation. Damien Murray J...
as required by law or regulations, by courts/tribunals, or government or regulatory bodies/authorities with service providers/third parties that we need to deal with for the purposes described in section 4 above including: our administrator (Australian Administration Services Pty Ltd, being a part ...
The Australian Law Reform Commission completed a Report on Privacy in 1983, including a Draft Bill. The Australian government introduced a Privacy Bill in 1986, closely coupled with a Bill to introduce a national identification scheme. It lapsed. A significantly revised Bill was introduced in late...
Some would say that if the government wants to link all the data about each person, even against the will of the public, it might be better done by the ABS, as they are obliged to provide at least some privacy protections. However, the problem with giving such task to the ABS is in...
Similar to the Australian privacy principles, New Zealand law lays out 12 information privacy principles (NZ IPPs) for the proper handling of personal information of Kiwi citizens, and these principles can be found athttp://privacy.org.nz/information-privacy-principles. The Act and 12 IPPs presum...
Apple also advises insufficient judicial review can reduce customer trust and security, arguing there is concern that an independent judicial review is not required before the government could issue a technical assistance notice (TAN) or capability notice (TCN). The UK's Investigatory Powers Act is...
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alternatively, if it was found to have collected that information, the circumstances were within the scope of the permitted general situations outlined at items 1 and 2 of section 16A of the Privacy Act which permit the collection of sensitive information without...