[NA-Discuss] Australian Privacy Commissioner to Issue Breach Notification Guidelines

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

All,

  From several of our insiders at the commission, the push
was to lesson privacy rights early on, now that trend has
been reversed due to public outrage.  This may be why now
the details are being kept closely concealed.  Of course
I cannot and will not reveal our sources for obvious reasons.

 April 15, 2008)
Australia's privacy commissioner Karen Curtis plans to issue draft
guidelines regarding data breach notification to help companies address
the issue while the details of the Privacy Act revision continue to be
hammered out.  Government agencies and businesses have contacted the
privacy commissioner's office with questions about handling data
security breaches.  The guidelines will be voluntary; commentary on the
guidelines will be accepted through June 16, 2008. The Australian Law
Reform Commission's review of the 20-year-old Privacy Act is expected
later this year, and it may be some time before new laws are enacted.
http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,23539443-15306,00.html

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