Tag: Timothy Pilgrim

A ‘chilling effect’ on free speech

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s national privacy office has ruled that individuals should “reasonably expect” the government will release sensitive personal data publicly to refute its critics, sparking concerns of a “chilling effect”...

OAIC: More than 60 data breaches

Posted on   |  by James Riley
More than 60 data breaches were reported to the government’s privacy body in the first six weeks of the new mandatory notification scheme, with the majority caused by human...

Health bungles data release

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A new report by the government’s privacy authority has found that the Department of Health breached the Privacy Act a number of times as part of a bungled release...

Privacy office at breaking point

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian government’s national data authority is facing “unprecedented challenges” following recent global data controversies and the commencement of the data breach notification laws, while its resources are “stretched...

Breach scheme adds cyber focus

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s mandatory data breach notification scheme has officially come into effect as the federal government looks to further ramp up its focus on cyber security. The data breach notification...

Skills high on agenda for industry

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The CSIRO, IoT Alliance Australia, Council of Small business of Australia (COSBA), and Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) are among 160-plus organisation to respond to the federal...

The core ethics of data analytics

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australian businesses and governments that want to exploit the value in personal data need to first exercise their “moral imagination” because tick-a-box compliance is failing. Speaking at Data Privacy...

Privacy code just a ‘smokescreen’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government’s planned privacy code for the public sector is a “smokescreen” to cover its series of failures in the space, and has no hope of preventing similar failures...

Privacy code to cover drug data

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Federal Government has agreed to the creation of a new privacy code to apply to the Australian Public Service following a series of high-profile and embarrassing data debacles...