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...
Last week, the Australian Privacy Foundation balked at the idea of users being scanned for biometric data when using the Brisbane public transport system. Queensland’s Go Card system operator Cubic Transportation, is currently running trials that involve palm vein scanning and facial recognition. According to Cubic...
Privacy experts have voiced their concerns regarding personal identifiers on ballots for the same-sex marriage postal vote that will be sent out September 12. Monique Mann, co-chair of the surveillance committee of the Australian Privacy Foundation says that the identifiers may expose the Australian Bureau...