Peter A Clarke

The Privacy Commissioner issued a statement today announcing that he is investigating a possible breach by the MUA.  The media release provides:

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The Privacy Commissioner has issued a draft guide to big data and the Australian Privacy Principles.  The closing dates for submissions is 26 July 2016.

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The Privacy Commissioner has done what he does best.  Another speech.  This time for the launch of Privacy Awareness Week.

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Australia is yet to have mandatory data breach notification legislation. The Attorney General’s Department has published the submissions it Read the rest of this entry »

The OAIC has announced its program for the Privacy Awareness Week, 15 – 21 May 2016.  Privacy Weeks are part of the activities of most data regulators/privacy commissioners.  In New Zealand it is 9 – 14 May 2016.  Funnily enough the theme for both privacy weeks is “Privacy in your hands.”

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The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (“OAIC”) has announced the creation of a Consumer Privacy Network.  It is a forum of Read the rest of this entry »

At the annual IaapANZ Summit held yesterday (which I attended) the Privacy Commissioner made his keynote annual speech. Commissioner Pilgrim does provide something of an overview of where the Office has been going and will be going for the next year.  The problem generally is that Read the rest of this entry »

Telechoice has entered into an enforceable undertaking with the Privacy Commissioner arising out of a significant data breach Business Service Brokers Pty Ltd (ACN 069 049 994) (trading as TeleChoice) (“BSB”).

The Undertaking is found here.

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The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner website has been upgraded.  It is far more user friendly.

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Yesterday the Government introduced and read for a first and second time the Health Legislation Amendment (eHealth) Bill 2015.

The Bill is a 126 page behemoth which will warrant close scrutiny.  Briefly it is worth noting some notable features of the Bill:

• Part 3 provides for the collection, use and disclosure of the healthcare identifiers, identifying information and other information. The simplified outline describes the process as:

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