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Secure disposal of personal information – responsibility from cradle to grave

February 11, 2020 - 10:02am

With the start of a new year, it is a timely reminder for public sector agencies to review their document destruction policies and processes to ensure they are compliant with the Information Privacy Act 2009 (IP Act) and the Public Records Act 2002, including Retention and Disposal Schedules.

Information Access Commissioners and Ombudsman release survey results on community attitudes

September 30, 2019 - 9:29am

Information Access Commissioners and Ombudsman today released the findings of their first cross jurisdictional study of community attitudes to access to government information.

Privacy Authorities Australia support complaint and enforcement cooperation

April 16, 2019 - 8:16am

Privacy Authorities Australia (PAA) was established in 2008 to be a forum for the sharing of ideas, developments, resources and knowledge to improve the collective information privacy capability of Privacy Authorities across Australia.

Over ten years later, inter-jurisdictional collaboration remains essential to privacy authorities’ effectiveness and to our ability to contribute solutions to privacy complaints, breaches and policy challenges that cross borders or involve complex systems and technologies. As the issues for privacy become ever more complex, it becomes increasingly challenging to retain the requisite specialised expertise within any one jurisdiction. By working together, we can leverage each authority’s comparative strengths to achieve a more extensive or cross-cutting result in our enforcement activities than we could individually.