April 20, 2016
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.”
The release Read the rest of this entry »
April 19, 2016
Slate magazine described 2015 as the year of the drone. It was probably being somewhat premature. The limit to drone use and capability has not been reached.
The use of drones still raises issues and strong opposition with “humans on drones” violence as reported in Read the rest of this entry »
DLA Piper has released its annual Data Protection Laws of the World for 2016. It is quite a good resource though necessarily general.
It is interesting to see that Australia is Read the rest of this entry »
The phone hacking scandal in the UK, with the News of the World being the biggest offender, has had a seismic effect on regulation, not to mention giving the law of privacy a kick a long. The scandal Read the rest of this entry »
April 15, 2016
It is hardly news to those who practice in the area that many Australian organisations generally place data security and privacy well down the priority list. That is partly, and significantly, because Read the rest of this entry »
April 10, 2016
Revenge porn has, until recently, followed an invariable fact situation; female partner breaks up with male partner and the male ex uploads intimate photographs/video of the female ex onto one of the many potential platforms on the internet, including Read the rest of this entry »
April 7, 2016
The new E health records system is attracting considerable attention…of the unwanted kind as the model switches from an opt in to an opt out system. The latest development is the poor data security in the Read the rest of this entry »
March 31, 2016
Here is a case that can be served up to the Privacy Commissioner without the need for garnish. The Age reports in More than a million Menulog customers’ private data at risk of theft that someone logging into the Menulog website can access and view names and email addresses of 1.1 customers when the permitted access was only to the customers of that person (or the company). The defensive and inadequate response of Menulog when this problem was brought to its attention highlights Read the rest of this entry »
The BBC reports in Sex worker caught by ‘drone vigilante’ pleads guilty that in Oklahoma a citizen used his drone to film an act of prostitution, in a parked vehicle, which resulted in the successful prosecution of hte prostitute. Given the development of the technology it is hardly surprising that it could be put to this use. The privacy issues are Read the rest of this entry »
March 30, 2016
Apps are notorious for being a weak links in an organisations cyber security structure. Commonly there is no privacy by design incorporated into an app. The emphasis is Read the rest of this entry »