[AusNOG] Mandatory data breach notification will become law in Australia

[Robert Hudson]

Hi Matt,

Are you suggesting that you believe that this change is just more "red
tape", rather than a win for the individual with regards to knowing if
their PII may have, for whatever reason, fallen into the wrong hands, and
may be used for less-than-satisfactory (from the perspective of said
individual) purposes?

If you feel that adequately protecting and reporting on loss of PII
belonging to other individuals is an onerous task that you shouldn't need
to be part of, you could always not collect/store PII. Less red tape that
way!

Regards,

Robert


On 27 Feb 2017 10:20 PM, "Matt Perkins" <matt at spectrum.com.au> wrote:

Didn't they say this was the government that would slash red tape ?

Matt



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> On 27 Feb 2017, at 6:23 pm, Chris Legg <cdlegg at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> Copied from another source:
>
>
> Australia will have a mandatory data breach notification scheme in place
within the year after several aborted attempts, following the passage of
legislation through the senate on Feb 13th.
>
> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/data-
breach-scheme-to-become-law/news-story/8c2765681201c0d1c58ece2ebc3022c5
>
> This ruling applies to all government entities and organizations with a
turnover greater than $3 million a year. Entities with turnover of less
than $3 million a year fall outside the legislation.
>
> The newly passed law means organizations that determine they have been
breached or have lost data will need to report the incident to the Privacy
Commissioner and notify affected customers as soon as they become aware of
a breach.
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