By
Justin Hendry
on Mar 5, 2021 6:50AM
Another round of consultations now on the cards.
The NSW government will conduct a second round of consultations on its proposed mandatory data breach notification regime later this year, with the scheme now not expected to be up and running until 2022.
The long-sought regime would force state government agencies to report data breaches to affected individuals and the privacy commissioner, replacing a voluntary scheme under NSW's existing privacy laws.
It was first recommended by former privacy commissioner Elizabeth Coombs in 2015 – around the same time the federal government committed to such a regime at the Commonwelath level, which it subsequently introduced in February 2018.