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Archives for 2019

PIAs: Eight lessons to learn from the myki data debacle

November 20, 2019, Melanie Casley

As you might expect, the recent investigation by the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (OVIC) into the public release of data about myki card users includes important insights into de-identification and re-identification, which were pick…

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Training is key to avoiding liability for rogue employees

October 1, 2019, Anna Johnston

A recent case illustrates the importance of robust, mandatory privacy training for staff, to avoid privacy breaches – or, if a breach does happen, in order to avoid liability for when a rogue employee goes off on a privacy-invading frolic of their own….

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Stand in their shoes: Privacy by Design is needed everywhere

September 6, 2019, Anna Johnston

A recent case illustrates the need to think about privacy in both system design and human decision-making.  Plus, how keeping user experience (UX) front of mind when designing systems or processes should result in better privacy outcomes too – and mayb…

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You say potato: The meaning and causes of data breaches

August 27, 2019, Anna Johnston

You say data breach, I say cybersecurity incident You say privacy breach, I say an individual sending out emails Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto Let’s call the whole thing off (With apologies to Ella Fitzgerald)   What is a data breach?  Is it th…

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Top 10 Privacy Risks to Lose Sleep Over

July 10, 2019, Anna Johnston

We’ve written before about the common causes of data breaches, but what about all the other types of privacy risks your organisation might face? This month we have helpfully compiled for you a list of Ten Things To Do or Not to Do or Privacy Risks to A…

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Privacy 101, for people who are new to privacy

May 3, 2019, Anna Johnston

Hey get ready people, it’s almost Privacy Awareness Week! OAIC’s theme for 2019 is ‘Don’t be in the dark about privacy’, while OPC NZ and OVIC’s theme is ‘Protecting privacy is everyone’s responsibility’.  No matter which slogan you prefer, the point i…

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The ethics of artificial intelligence: start with the law

April 27, 2019, Anna Johnston

Imagine reading an ethical framework for organising birthday parties, which says that it will be important to meet legal requirements in terms of not making too much noise, that matching napkins and paper plates are fundamental to planning your party,…

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My Privacy String: Tie up loose threads to avoid privacy risks

March 18, 2019, Kobby Agyei

If a year ago I had attached a piece of string to the personal information I provided in order to enter an online competition, would I be surprised how many organisations had my string threading through them by now? Almost certainly my string would by…

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It’s the data breach countdown: the top 10 risks to avoid

February 25, 2019, Anna Johnston

February marks 12 months since the start of the notifiable data breach scheme here in Australia, and nine months since the European notification scheme started under the GDPR.  American notification laws have been running for years now. All of which me…

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PPIPA turns 21: should we celebrate?

January 21, 2019, Anna Johnston

If 21 is the age at which a person is considered to have matured, what are we to make of a law when it turns 21? 2019 marks the 21st birthday of PPIPA (aka the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998), the key privacy statute in my home st…

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Recent Posts

  • PIAs: Eight lessons to learn from the myki data debacle
  • Training is key to avoiding liability for rogue employees
  • Stand in their shoes: Privacy by Design is needed everywhere
  • You say potato: The meaning and causes of data breaches
  • Top 10 Privacy Risks to Lose Sleep Over
  • Privacy 101, for people who are new to privacy
  • The ethics of artificial intelligence: start with the law
  • My Privacy String: Tie up loose threads to avoid privacy risks
  • It’s the data breach countdown: the top 10 risks to avoid
  • 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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