Tag: OAIC

Govt fails to deliver COVIDSafe report

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has failed to produce a six-monthly report on the effectiveness of its COVIDSafe contact tracing app during the winter sitting of Parliament, despite promising to do...

Privacy office’s Clearview AI inquiry still going

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Australian privacy watchdog’s investigation into controversial facial recognition service Clearview AI is still ongoing nearly 12 months after it was launched, as the company faces legal action across...

Agencies getting COVIDSafe data by accident

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Law enforcement agencies have not accessed or decrypted any data from the federal government’s COVIDSafe app despite sometimes “incidentally” collecting information from it,  the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security...

Standalone FOI Commissioner to be appointed

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A standalone Freedom of Information Commissioner will be appointed to work alongside the Privacy Commissioner, with the government to finally meet its legislative requirements in separating the positions. Angelene...

FinTechs want AEC data for digital ID checks

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government will consider whether to grant expanded access to the electoral roll and the ASIC register in order to assist FinTechs in conducting digital identity checks. As part...

FOI exemption on data sharing queried

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The privacy watchdog has urged the government to reverse its plan to exempt any information sent under its new data-sharing scheme from Freedom of Information requests. Legislation introducing a...

Privacy watchdog probes Facebook data dump

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The privacy watchdog is conducting initial inquiries into the latest Facebook data leak which exposed the personal information of 553 million users, including 7.3 million Australians. A user in...

Data consent rules part of Privacy Act review

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
There should be a significant overhaul of privacy laws to require the use of consent for data collection and move towards a privacy by default approach instead, the New...