The total number of reported data breaches in Australia for the 2019-20 financial year totalled 1,050, the first of two half-year reports from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner ...

Organisations are legally required to report data breaches. Political parties are exempt — except the United Australia Party ...

Personal information should be used or disclosed on a need-to-know basis, the OAIC said, adding that only the minimum amount of personal information "reasonably necessary" to prevent or manage ...

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has published AI guidance articulating how Australian privacy law applies to AI and the OAIC’s overall expectations on AI governance ...

Qantas failed to protect passengers’ personal information, according to a law firm seeking potential compensation from the ...

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s latest Notifiable Data Breaches Report revealed a rapid rise nationwide in notifiable data breaches in the first six months of 2024 — a ...

Cyber security incidents were the cause of most data breaches, which rose by 26% in the second half of 2022, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.

The national regulator for privacy, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), said Bunnings was using a system that scanned the faces of customers in store and cross-checked ...

Two Australian regulators said on Tuesday they have opened investigations into Optus, the country's No. 2 telecoms provider, after a breach of its systems resulted in the theft of personal data ...

The government has directed the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to draft the code, and has given the regulator three years and AU$3 million (US$2 million) to do so.

Re-defining the basics. Of the 116 proposals, there are some proposals which will be of interest to businesses operating in Australia. These include, amongst others: ...