privacy impact assessment

A recent incident in the Netherlands, where a database for COVID-19 test results and contact tracing systems was compromised, is a warning to Australian agencies not to take the same risks. 

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has launched a new resource to help federal government agencies determine when they should conduct a privacy-impact assessment. Under the OAIC’s privacy code for federal agencies, entities must conduct a privacy-impact assessment for all “high-privacy-risk projects” — activities or initiatives that involve new or changed ways of […]

New South Wales government agencies must be open and upfront with how they collect and use people’s information, according to the state privacy commissioner.

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has called on government agencies to look at their privacy controls and build in privacy by design during Privacy Awareness Week.

More than 1 million Australians have downloaded the new coronavirus contact tracing app less than a day after its release, according to health minister Greg Hunt.

The federal government’s Multi-Agency Data Integration Project has published a new privacy impact assessment. The MADIP was established in 2015 and became fully operational in 2018. Led by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the project brings person-centred data together from the Australian Taxation Office, the Department of Education, the Department of Health, the Department of […]

Privacy commissioners of four states and the Commonwealth are celebrating their week on the awareness-raising calendar, at the pointy end of an election campaign that

The public service — at federal level at least — will become only the third sector to be bound by a privacy code registered with the Information Commissioner. Among other things, it sets out a new definition of government activities that pose a high risk to privacy.

The federal government’s embrace of open data has suffered a second blow in recent weeks. APS employee Census data has been removed from data.gov.au because it could breach the privacy of public servants.