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The government has introduced sweeping reforms to privacy laws, which they intend to legislate in 2024. The response to a two year review into the Privacy Act has re-defined personal information, and even enables Australians to file a civil lawsuit for privacy breaches.
By Justin Hendry on Apr 20, 2021 3:04PM No access under planned data sharing laws without accreditation. A privacy impact assessment of the federal government’s planned public sector data sharing scheme has called for agencies to be subject to the same accreditation requirements as the private sector. The independent PIA [pdf], released last week, is the third assessment of the reforms, which are bookended as the Data Availability and Transparency Bill (DATB) currently before parliament. If passed, the bill will allow accredited users and data serv...