Catching up: open health data privacy risk exposed, WA reform blueprint drops News A couple of very interesting and important stories unfolded in late 2017 and early 2018. Medicare re-identification another blow to open data Information security researchers
Privacy commissioner 'making inquiries' about Centrelink's flexible privacy principles February 28, 2017 By Stephen Easton News Activists accuse the Department of Human Services of releasing private personal information about a woman in an effort to silence her criticism of its much-maligned
Pilgrim: mandatory data breach notifications to 'strengthen community trust' February 16, 2017 By Stephen Easton News Information commissioner Timothy Pilgrim is pleased that a mandatory data breach notification clause has finally been inserted into the federal Privacy Act, and is beginning
De-identification: the de-vil is in the de-tail November 3, 2016 By Timothy Pilgrim Features As you read this there is a bill before the federal parliament to create a new criminal offence of re-identifying de-identified Australian government data. If
The give and take of public privacy in the big data era October 4, 2016 By Stephen Easton News Privacy means different things to different people. To a lot of public servants and academics, it’s become a barrier to a world of valuable insights
Service provider IDs unmasked in open health data, investigation underway September 29, 2016 By Stephen Easton News The Department of Health has removed a set of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and Medicare data from the federal open portal after computer security experts were
Banned FOI lobby group will sit on new open government board September 1, 2016 By Harley Dennett News The complainant, respondent and adjudicator of a Freedom of Information spat will all find themselves sharing duties to usher in Australia’s commitment to open government. The
Pilgrim: Census shutdown was a 'pro-privacy' move August 11, 2016 By Stephen Easton News Privacy commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has concluded Australian statistician David Kalisch took a “pro-privacy precaution” when he decided to take down the online Census form on
Where is the trust? Census DDoS claim faces early scepticism August 10, 2016 By Stephen Easton News Chief statistician David Kalisch faces the media to explain #CensusFail. “Not an attack, nor a hack” says the Assistant Treasurer, so what was it? Only
Tim Pilgrim: privacy and innovation in the data-driven economy May 17, 2016 By Timothy Pilgrim Features Privacy has grown in public consciousness, customer consideration and business governance, to such an extent that the original desire to raise awareness of privacy per
Tim Pilgrim: a smart approach to privacy, data and de-identification May 3, 2016 By Timothy Pilgrim Features I’m here to discuss privacy, data, de-identification; and the opportunities these present in an Australian context. And the opportunities of bringing these three issues together
Thawley shut out privacy commissioner from data policy statement February 3, 2016 By Harley Dennett News The Commonwealth’s foremost expert on privacy issues was shut out of the whole-of-government public data and data management policy design work ahead of last December’s
Timothy Pilgrim: OAIC has a mandate, powers, and is not afraid to use them September 3, 2015 By The Mandarin Career Advice Presentation by Timothy Pilgrim PSM, Australian privacy commissioner and acting Australian information commissioner, to The Law Society of New South Wales Government Solicitors Conference in
OAIC to be left without statutory officers July 13, 2015 By David Donaldson News The government has left unanswered questions about what will happen at the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner after its two remaining statutory officers depart this month,
