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The OAIC this week issued its 40 page joint report with its Canadian counterpart of their joint investigation into the data security practices of Ashley Madison adult dating website operator Avid Life Media (ALM).The website suffered a large scale breach...

Friday, February 17, 2017 - 13:19 Australian enterprises and federal agencies now have 12 months to prepare to comply with Mandatory Data Breach Notification Laws, following the passage of the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 on...

On February 13, 2017, the Australian Senate passed a bill establishing a mandatory requirement to notify the Privacy Commissioner and affected individuals of “eligible” data breaches. The Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2016, which was...

Australians are psyched about their connected devices so the government implemented some IoT guidelines for smart cities, initially deployed in the UK. It’s always great to see countries working on improving infrastructure security, but according to...

We live in an era of big data stored digitally, and some of that data is about you. For example, the government keeps your social security and tax data, banks keep your financial data and your phone provider stores your metadata. There is probably more...