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

Matt Perkins matt at spectrum.com.au
Tue Feb 28 10:17:49 EST 2017


The commercial realty is that if you are not complaint with a whole host 
of standards and have good insurance and are compiling with the  terms 
of that insurance your likely already doing everything the law requires 
anyway and Medical/Financial people wont deal with you unless you can 
prove that.

   All this will provide is more reporting and more red tape.

Matt.



On 28/2/17 10:02 am, Matt Smee wrote:
>
> “Why can  these things not be decided on profit.”
>
> I agree.
>
> All organisations should have to comply with this law - regardless of 
> their profits. If my financial, medical and/or personal data is being 
> held big BigCorpX or LittleLocalY it doesn’t matter to me, the 
> citizen, what their profits are - the outcome if that data is 
> mishandled or stolen is the same either way.
>
> However, we’re a long way from that being a reasonable requirement of 
> every business, not until the general public and business folk are 
> more educated around IT and perhaps even infosec can this be 
> reasonably expected.
>
> “There's a lot of small operators that collect 3 million and then turn 
> over the bulk of that  AAPT/Telstra/Optus/Vocus . “
>
> Correct me if I’m wrong, but that doesn’t sound but profit but more an 
> expense/cost of operations.
>
> **
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt.
>
> *From: *AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> on behalf of Matt 
> Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au>
> *Date: *Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 9:42 am
> *To: *Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *"ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [AusNOG] Mandatory data breach notification will become 
> law in Australia
>
> Im suggesting that more and more government regulation does but one 
> thing push small guys out of the market.  It wont just be a reporting 
> requirement but there will be forms reports. Reporting officers etc 
> etc. It's not the reporting requirement I have a problem with it's all 
> the red tape that's going to go with it.
>
> The government needs to learn that 3million turnover  is not a large 
> business.  Why can  these things not be decided on profit. There's a 
> lot of small operators that collect 3 million and then turn over the 
> bulk of that AAPT/Telstra/Optus/Vocus .
>
> Yet the government treats them like AAPT/Telstra/Optus/Vocus
>
>
> On 28/2/17 7:22 am, Robert Hudson wrote:
>
>     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
>     <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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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