There were 964 data breaches reported to the federal regulator in the first year of mandatory reporting rules and “malicious or criminal attacks” were behind…

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 experienced jurist responds to the former APS commissioner's claims that he exceeded his brief and that he should have been excluded due to apprehended bias…

The former Australian public service commissioner has accused the merit protection commissioner's office of smearing his reputation.

The Australian Information Commissioner gave a keynote address to federal FOI officers at a meeting of the Information Contact Officers Network (ICON) this week.

A new report confirms that Australia’s healthcare sector is susceptible to data breaches, yet the legal requirements around breach notification are inconsistent and about to…

The number of data breach notifications has increased steadily with each month since Australia's new mandatory disclosure laws came into effect earlier this year, according…

Just after one corruption watchdog warned public servants not to peek at government records without good reason in its contribution to Privacy Awareness Week, another…

In just six weeks there were 63 data breach notifications to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner since the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme came…

The Department of Health breached the Privacy Act by publishing open data, according to a ruling made last week by former information and privacy commissioner Timothy…

Brian Fletcher, director of government affairs for Symantec in the Asia-Pacific region, offers five tips to tighten privacy controls in the public sector as a…

Timothy Pilgrim has announced his resignation as privacy and freedom-of-information commissioner, effective March 24, two days out from the beginning of the mandatory data breach…

A lost device or information sent to the wrong person could trigger new obligations under the Notifiable Data Breach scheme which comes into effect next…

A new data de-identification decision-making guide has been released to help public servants and others navigate this area. But there is still more work to…