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The Commonwealth’s freedom of information regime has been described as a dysfunctional, broken mess. But there are ways to repair it.

Forensic IT experts, cybersecurity specialists, data practitioners, network architects, risk analysts – privacy is a team sport.

The Privacy Act definition of personal information is expanding, with an individual’s ‘attributes’ becoming part of the process.

Information Integrity Solutions Partners says the ABS must do ongoing testing of community perspectives for the 19th national Census.

Suddenly, banks are interested in people without papers. Forget identity politics, identity monetisation is where digital ID is at.

Dreyfus: standalone commissioner roles mark a serious commitment by Labor to FOI and privacy, data protection, AI policy and governance.

The Australian Research Council experienced a 4,686.0% increase in FOI requests in the past year, according to the latest OAIC report.

Control over federal facial recognition systems is on the move again, and Paul Fletcher is dining out on a hot potato.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner making inquiries after police admitted it hadn’t considered the surveillance technology’s privacy impact.

Data breaches are growing more common, and more damaging. While they are often seen as a data security problem, I would argue that this lets organisations off the hook for their poor data management practices. We always ask, “how did they get in?”, but never questions like, “why does this organisation still have this sensitive […]

Attorney-general Mark Dreyfus announced the government has opened recruitment for a standalone privacy commissioner.

Australia’s information privacy commissioners ask individuals to use multi-factor authentication and strong passphrases.

The former senator is taking the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to Federal Court over FOI delays.