Category Archives: Privacy & Data

If you think about the number of ‘junk’ emails you receive from the countless companies you have ‘subscribed’ to over the years, how many emails would that be? In being subscribed to these newsletters...

On the 26 July 2019 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) released the final report into the Digital Platforms Inquiry.  Prompted by the rise of advertising on digital platfor...

If you collect personal information about customers and they are European citizens or residents or if your business markets to customers in the EU, you must comply with new privacy ...

I have had a number of queries recently about data breaches and mandatory reporting.  Currently, there is no law requiring that a company notify compromised parties if there has been a data breac...

Data breach law has been a hot topic recently.  On 19 October 2016, the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 was introduced to Parliament. The new bill, if passed, will make it...

Privacy policies are mandatory for businesses with a turnover of over $3 million or those that collect ‘sensitive Information’ from people.  However, there are a range of other reasons why all bu...

As I recently discussed in a previous article, data breaches are a growing problem and the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) have highlighted the prevalence of data breaches within Australian in-...

In our recent presentation E-Commerce Expectations, we discussed the importance of data breach notification, which is the practice of notifying customers or clients if data regarding their personal an...

As discussed in our previous article, some businesses are required by law to have an established privacy policy outlining the ways in which personal and sensitive information is collected and used. T...