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Archives for 2020

What’s in store for privacy law in Australia?

December 14, 2020, Anna Johnston

The road to law reform is often long, and in the case of the Australian Privacy Act this latest iteration will prove no exception. In October 2020 the Australian government released an Issues Paper to explore the question of whether the Privacy Act 198…

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Location, location, location: online or offline, privacy matters

November 12, 2020, Anna Johnston

One of the key findings of the OAIC’s latest Australian Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey is that 62% of Australians are uncomfortable with their location being tracked through their mobile or web browser.  Our Kiwi cousins are remarkably similar:…

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The Data-Sharing Dilemma

October 22, 2020, Samantha Floreani

Who gets to use public sector data, for what purposes, and under what conditions?  Whose data is it anyway? That is the debate at the heart of a proposal now being put forward by the Australian Government, in its exposure draft of the Data Availability…

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Putting a price tag on privacy

September 28, 2020, Samantha Floreani

We’ve all heard the saying: “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.”  The underlying assumption of this phrase is that if we were paying for the product or service, then we wouldn’t need to ‘pay’ for it with our data.   But what if…

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Why privacy is a public good in need of better protection

August 10, 2020, Anna Johnston

We don’t live in a bubble, so why do privacy laws act like we do? It may seem counter-intuitive, but privacy is very much a public good. If we think of managing privacy as a private exercise, governed by our own actions and choices, then the regulatory…

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Re-thinking transparency: If notice and consent is broken, what now?

May 29, 2020, Anna Johnston

The concept of consent may not yet be broken, but it is certainly under strain. Nowhere was this more evident than at the IAPP ANZ Summit in late 2019, where speaker after speaker hammered another nail in the coffin of the ‘notice and consent’ model of…

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Should I download the COVID-Safe app? The privacy pros and cons

April 29, 2020, Anna Johnston

Last Sunday evening, as I was cosily snuggled up on my sofa watching a murder mystery, my phone started beeping like mad.  I had multiple text messages from friends and family, all asking my advice on the same thing: ‘What’s with the covid app? Should…

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Privacy in a pandemic: Keep calm, and remember first principles

March 31, 2020, Anna Johnston

Welcome to the new normal. This month we offer an overview of the privacy issues to think about as you navigate the new normal, with pointers to the best guidance we have found. Privacy is not just about data Is there a better illustration of the impor…

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Privacy in design: Tranquil spaces to be ‘let alone’

February 21, 2020, Melanie Casley

I love Islamic architecture, for the arched doorways offering little glimpses into private worlds. ‘Smart cities’ are all fine and good for life’s necessary conveniences, with their state-of-the art parking tech lighting your way to vacancies, conveyer…

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What should we do about facial recognition?

January 24, 2020, Stephen Wilson

Privacy dies yet again In another masterful piece of privacy reporting, Kashmir Hill in the New York Times has exposed the nefarious use of facial recognition technology by start-up Clearview. The business offers face searching and identification servi…

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Recent Posts

  • OAIC determinations shed light on when data is regulated as ‘personal information’
  • Big Tech, Individuation, and why Privacy must become the Law of Everything
  • Should birds of a feather be FLoC’d together?
  • Why can’t Aunty get the ABCs of privacy right?
  • Privacy law reform in Australia – the good, the bad and the ugly
  • Between 7 and 11 lessons you can learn from the latest OAIC privacy case
  • Privacy and gender: what to ask, when and why
  • What covid apps can teach us about privacy, utility and trust in tech design
  • Cat or carrot? Assessing the privacy risks from algorithmic decisions
  • Not too much identity technology, and not too little
  • For all the privacy officers caught in the middle of a tug of war
  • How to earn your social licence: the role of trust in project design
  • Representative redress required to mop up after asylum seeker data breach
  • Design jam leaves customers in a privacy pickle
  • What’s in store for privacy law in Australia?
  • Location, location, location: online or offline, privacy matters
  • The Data-Sharing Dilemma
  • Putting a price tag on privacy
  • Why privacy is a public good in need of better protection
  • Re-thinking transparency: If notice and consent is broken, what now?
  • Should I download the COVID-Safe app? The privacy pros and cons
  • Privacy in a pandemic: Keep calm, and remember first principles
  • Privacy in design: Tranquil spaces to be ‘let alone’
  • What should we do about facial recognition?
  • 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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