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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

The Australian Information Commissioner has called for better staff training to prevent data breaches, following a new report.

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 government has announced the appointment of a National Data Advisory Council comprised of six independent experts and three government representatives who will support the…

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