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Archives for 2018

Why “opt out consent” is an oxymoron

November 29, 2018, Anna Johnston

Recently via a LinkedIn debate prompted by my My Health Record blog, I was asked a number of questions by people in the health and tech sectors, along the lines of whether or not the My Health Record’s ‘opt out’ approach is a valid consent (me: no, it’…

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How to corrode your social licence in nine easy steps

October 17, 2018, Anna Johnston

A lesson from the Australian Government. Privacy missteps are eroding the public’s trust in the Government’s ability to achieve ambitious digital projects, and risking trust in the very notion of government itself. The corrosive effects of privacy deba…

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Why you’ve been drafting your Privacy Policy all wrong

July 12, 2018, Anna Johnston

Sure, copy that privacy policy from your competitor … at your peril.   Did you suffer a flurry of ‘We’ve updated our Privacy Policy’ emails recently, many from organisations you don’t even remember dealing with in the first place? Or have you been…

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How do you solve a problem like Facebook?

May 21, 2018, Anna Johnston

How do you solve a problem like Facebook? How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?* By now we all know the story: Facebook allowed apps on its social media platform which enabled a shady outfit called Cambridge Analytica to scrape the profiles of 87 m…

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Investing in Privacy: Does privacy need to be quantifiable to be valued?

April 5, 2018, Anna Johnston

On January 28, when many Australians were enjoying the last hurrah of summer holidays and getting the kids ready to go back to school, our northern hemisphere colleagues were celebrating International Data Privacy Day.  A day to reflect on privacy chal…

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Stormy seas ahead as TfNSW loses critical Opal Card privacy case

March 8, 2018, Anna Johnston

A new case challenging the design of a public transport ticketing system on privacy grounds has broad implications for any organisation which collects personal information, especially in this age of Big Data. In 2016, an unrepresented NSW resident, Nig…

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Too much cyber, not enough privacy 101

February 5, 2018, Anna Johnston

Just as we are preparing for mandatory data breach notification to commence here in Australia, some interesting pieces of news have revealed that perhaps both corporations and government agencies have taken their eye off the ball when it comes to prote…

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Recent Posts

  • PPIPA turns 21: should we celebrate?
  • Why “opt out consent” is an oxymoron
  • How to corrode your social licence in nine easy steps
  • Why you’ve been drafting your Privacy Policy all wrong
  • How do you solve a problem like Facebook?
  • Investing in Privacy: Does privacy need to be quantifiable to be valued?
  • Stormy seas ahead as TfNSW loses critical Opal Card privacy case
  • Too much cyber, not enough privacy 101
  • Yet another broken anonymity promise
  • Better than Santa, your IoT device will know who’s naughty and nice
  • Preventing and responding to data breaches: are you ready for 2018?
  • Looking forward, looking back: privacy challenges past and future
  • Why the marriage equality poll is a privacy issue
  • What technology designers need to know to understand privacy
  • Balancing the ledger: accounting for the year in privacy
  • The privacy paradox: We want to have our data and eat it too
  • GDPR & PbD: what Aussies need to know about new privacy laws
  • Just because you can disclose, doesn’t mean you should
  • Hashing, Beyonce & rainbows: a lay person’s guide to de-identification
  • Mobiles, metadata and the meaning of ‘personal information’
  • Happy New Year! The Privacy Officer’s guide to 2017
  • Social licence and pragmatic tools: how to unlock public data
  • Dear Diary: Should you be public or private, personal or Ministerial?
  • Individuation – Re-thinking the scope of privacy laws
  • Why I’m taking leave of my Census: a privacy expert’s reluctant boycott
  • What’s in the bag: data analytics or social surveillance?
  • Magic and rocket science: de-identification is the new black
  • Woolly thinking & knotty problems: how to untangle the Disclosure rules
  • Cash for data? Ownership of personal information not a solution
  • Why you might want to become a Jedi Knight for this year’s Census
  • Will the new Transborder principle become an April fool’s joke?
  • How Stephanie’s broken down car is undermining your privacy
  • Find your friends … and then invade their privacy
  • Smile! You’re on someone’s facial recognition database
  • A bridge too far: 85% of the world ignored at ‘international’ conference
  • Creepiness is in the eye of the beholder
  • Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water on donor privacy
  • There’s more than one way to bake a pia
  • Let’s take a ride on the privacy law reform merry-go-round
  • Is Barbie the new Big Brother? The Internet of Things is here
  • Man made software in His own image
  • Privacy in the age of the algorithm: a primer in ethics for using Big Data
  • Where’s Wally? Geolocation and the challenge of privacy protection
  • That’s a wrap: Privacy Awareness Week 2015
  • Bradley Cooper’s taxi ride: a lesson in privacy risk
  • Free search, free speech, and the Right To Be Forgotten
  • Hard or soft? The skills needed for a risk-based approach to privacy
  • The Tribunal is curious: is your privacy program up to scratch?

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