Salinger Privacy offers privacy consulting, training and resources. Established in 2004, our clients come from government, the non-profit sector and businesses across Australia.
No matter what sector you are in, we believe that privacy protection is essential for your reputation. In everything we do, we aim to demystify privacy law, and offer pragmatic solutions – to help you ensure regulatory compliance, and maintain the trust of your customers.
Salinger Privacy is:
- a fully pre-qualified supplier to the NSW Government; under the NSW Prequalification Scheme ‘Performance and Management Services’ (SCM0005), Salinger Privacy can be engaged, with no value limit, for business performance reviews and risk management advisory services, such as PIAs and privacy audits
- a registered supplier of Learning Services to the NSW Government; under the NSW Prequalification Scheme ‘ICT Services’ (SCM0020), Salinger Privacy can supply online training programs up to $150,000 in value
- an approved supplier on the Victorian Government’s eServices Register
- an approved seller on the Australian Government’s Digital Marketplace Panel (SON3413842), in relation to professional services under the risk management category for ICT projects, such as PIAs and privacy audits, as well as our Compliance Kits and privacy training solutions, and
- an Official Training Partner of the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
What’s New
Australian Privacy Act reforms
$50+ million penalties for privacy breaches is certainly attention-grabbing! Not to mention the 116 proposals for law reform released on 16 February 2023, 106 of which the Government has now agreed to implement, at least in principle. We have created a dedicated web page to monitor this and the other Privacy Act reforms.
We ran a webinar about the reform proposals in April 2023. The 90 minute recorded presentation, and a copy of the associated handouts, is now available as part of our Privacy Act Reforms Bundle.
We have also updated our fast guide for busy people: The Privacy Act in a Nutshell – An Executive Briefing Paper.
Plus we made a detailed submission to the Department on the Privacy Act Review Report; and in a long-form blog, we have teased out some of the surprising proposals from the Final Report into the review of the Privacy Act. A more recent blog explores the Government’s plans to act.
Our Privacy Act compliance training has also been updated to reflect the new penalties, which came into force in December 2022.
In October 2023 we ran a free webinar, to help small business owners and managers understand how to reduce the risk of data breaches – and meet customers’ expectations – by handling personal information well.
NSW privacy law reforms
NSW public sector agencies now need to comply with the new mandatory data breach notification scheme, which commenced in November 2023. Our template Data Breach Response Plan reflects the new requirements, and the latest guidance from the IPC. Grab your copy – included in our Everything for NSW Public Sector Agencies Compliance Kit.
Our online training module for NSW public sector agencies has also been updated to reflect the new requirements.
The August 2024 edition of the ‘bible’ of NSW privacy law, PPIPA in Practice, is out now – and it includes insights and analysis from the first case involving compensation for a large scale data breach. A copy is included in our Everything for NSW Public Sector Agencies Compliance Kit, or purchase as an annual subscription to ensure you stay up-to-date.
QLD privacy law reforms
Starting 2025, Queensland public sector agencies will also need to comply with a mandatory data breach notification scheme. Our template Data Breach Response Plan for QLD reflects the new requirements. Grab your copy – included in our Essentials for the QLD Public Sector Compliance Kit along with a template Privacy Policy and other pragmatic guidance.
Case law updates
Our Checklist on Handling a Privacy Complaint has been updated to reflect all cases decided by 29 February 2024.
Our Briefing Paper on Privacy, Marketing and Cookies has been updated to July 2024, to reflect the latest binding decisions by the European Data Protection Board against Meta, the EDPB’s guidance from its Cookie Banner Taskforce about cookie banner design, and proposals to reform direct marketing requirements in the Privacy Act, Spam Act enforcement action taken in 2023 against CBA and Ticketek which clarified the law, and ACMA’s July 2024 guidance on consent in marketing.
Unlock a wealth of knowledge from over 600 NSW privacy cases. Find out why our subscribers refer to our annotated guide PPIPA in Practice as their ‘bible’. Now in its 18th year of publication! Current edition reflects cases up to 31 July 2024.
Training
NOW AVAILABLE: A new, no-fuss solution to hosting, monitoring and reporting. We are super excited to announce that our privacy compliance online training modules (and other modules about topics like Privacy by Design) now come with reporting tools! We can supply a module to embed in your LMS, or we can host on our platform, for a no-tech-purchase, no-fuss, immediate roll-out, with regular reporting to you on staff progress. Plus, our modules are constantly updated, to reflect the latest legal developments. With a fresh contemporary design, Salinger Privacy’s online privacy training can help your staff understand their legal obligations, and help you report about their progress. Available for the Australian, NSW and Victorian privacy laws. Find out more.
Don’t miss our most popular small group program, CIPM. Or grab great value in a PPT Bundle, giving you access to 13 online training modules for 12 months.
And tickets are selling fast for the latest IAPP certification course: AI Governance Professional (AIGP).
Check out our Training Calendar for all our up-coming courses including live virtual options, as well as eLearning modules you can do anytime.
Free resources
The 2024 edition of our FREE Privacy Management Handbook is out now.
And celebrate Privacy Awareness Week with five days of free resources – see #PAW2024!
Fresh on the Salinger Privacy blog
In July we wrote about choosing Privacy by Design over Privacy Busywork.
In May we delved into the murky world of data clean rooms and data brokers.
In April we examined the interplay between privacy maturity and cyber risk.
Our March blog dives into the ‘pay or OK’ debate in Europe, and predicts what the implications of the EDPB’s position will be for online behavioural advertising and other surveillance-based business models, as well as for the Australian Privacy Act reforms.
In February our piece on Insider Risk illustrates why training and controls matter.
Glass half empty, or glass half full? How to read the Privacy Act reform proposals, plus a run-down of the 16 most impactful reforms.
Our November blog argues that if we value truth, if we value peace, our governments should prohibit all online behavioural tracking, profiling and targeting of individuals – including by politicians.
Are you a ‘fun-loving fifties’, a Toyota-buyer or a ‘cardiologist visitor’? Our September blog explains how data brokers have you pegged.
Prevention, notification, compensation: we explore lessons from a government data breach managed badly.
Our August blog challenges how media and marketing companies justify collecting, collating, sharing and using our data, across different brands, services, platforms and apps, in order to track, profile and target us, without our active agreement to do so.
It may seem counter-intuitive, but even synthetic data can have privacy impacts! Our July 2023 blog delved into the legal and ethical challenges that can arise when creating or using synthetic data.
We also teased out some of the surprising proposals from the Final Report into the long-running review of the Privacy Act, and took a deeper dive on the definition of ‘personal information’.
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