The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner urged the Australian government this week to introduce a sunset clause to the Assistance and Access Bill which is considered by many to be a risk to privacy. In its submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and...
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) reported this week in its first full quarterly update since the Notifiable Data Breach scheme (NDB) came into force that private health sector is still the most breached sector with 49 cases. It was also the only sector...
It was announced earlier this week that Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim will be retiring at the end of March. However, Australian Attorney-General Christian Porter also revealed that they are still looking for a replacement, which may mean that the leadership of...
The Australian Privacy Foundation recently called out the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and the federal government for not publishing a report on the incident that involved the leak of Medicare Benefits Schedule and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data in September 2016. The APF was...
Sydney, Australia - In its annual report, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) revealed that it has received 114 voluntary data breach notifications and 35 mandatory digital health data breach notifications from 2016 to 2017, which is a 29% increase from last year. The...