This came to my attention last week:Balancing the ledger: accounting for the year in privacyJune 28, 2017, Anna JohnstonThis Friday it will be the end-of-financial-year here in Australia, which means it’s time for a stock-take: see where we are at, count the positives and negatives, and determine our net position. Are we in the red or the black?So today, rather than reconcile the Salinger Privacy petty cash receipts, I thought I would do a stock-take of the year in privacy, reviewing both positives and negatives.Herewith I present to you the Privacy Ledger for the Australian Government, FY 2016-17.First, the privacy-positive side of the ledger:A data breach notification law was finally passed.The government backed down on a Bill that would have allowed more sharing of veterans’ personal information without their consent.The government also backed down on the proposal to allow access to telco metadata for use in civil litigation (although, as the ...
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