Home Affairs to task senior public servant with addressing FoI compliance issues Monday February 1, 2021 By Shannon Jenkins Federal The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has recommended the Department of Home Affairs appoint an ‘information champion’ after an investigation found the department has…
Most federal government data breaches caused by human error, report finds Friday January 29, 2021 By Shannon Jenkins Communications & Technology The federal government has for the first time been named as one of the top five industry sectors to report data breaches.
Home Affairs ordered to pay asylum seekers over data breach Wednesday January 27, 2021 By Shannon Jenkins Federal Compensation ranging from $500 to more than $20,000 would be paid on a case-by-case basis, and would be assessed using five categories of loss or…
National privacy regulator set to publish COVID-19 app investigation findings Thursday November 19, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Communications & Technology The incoming report will contain findings and recommendations from the first in a series of five assessments, which Angelene Falk says have examined compliance and…
Premium The Briefing The Briefing: Information Commissioner refers Senator Rex Patrick’s national cabinet challenge to the AAT Monday October 5, 2020 By Chris Woods Editors' Picks The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Angelene Falk has ruled that Independent Senator Rex Patrick's legal fight over blocked national cabinet documents be referred…
Trust in federal government departments’ handling of personal information declining, survey finds Thursday September 24, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Community & Social Trust in personal information handling by federal government departments has gone down by 14% since 2007, while trust in companies in general has declined by…
New resource helps agencies know when to conduct privacy-impact assessments Monday September 14, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Federal 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…
OAIC publishes new privacy guidance for government agencies Monday May 4, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Communications & Technology 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…
Australian Information Commissioner to sue Facebook Tuesday March 10, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Federal The Australian Information Commissioner is taking Facebook to court for allegedly breaching the privacy of more than 300,000 Australians through an app related to the…
Government entities must strengthen cyber defence capabilities, ASD boss says Tuesday March 3, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Federal The director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate has urged government organisations and businesses to treat cyber security with the same concern as financial performance, audits…
Privacy commissioner launches inquiry into police use of facial recognition software Thursday January 30, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Communications & Technology The Australian privacy commissioner will investigate whether a facial recognition app utilised by 600 American police departments is being used by police in Australia. Facial…
Trends and priorities for Australia’s freedom of information practitioners — Right to Know Day 2019 Tuesday October 8, 2019 By Angelene Falk Community & Social Speech by Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk to the Right to Know Day 2019 Information Contact Officer Network information session in Canberra on Sept. 24.
Australian and NZ info commissioners highlight importance of public information Monday September 30, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Communications & Technology Information commissioners and ombuds from Australia and New Zealand have called on government agencies to do more to make information accessible to the public. As…
Information Commissioner puts focus on prevention as cyber criminals target human vulnerability Thursday August 29, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Communications & Technology The Australian Information Commissioner has called for better staff training to prevent data breaches, following a new report.
Almost 1000 data breaches in a year, and citizens don't know who to trust with privacy Monday May 20, 2019 By Stephen Easton Communications & Technology 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…
