The Productivity Commission’s proposed comprehensive consumer right to data
By Dr Drew Donnelly, Compliance Quarter. Over the last couple of weeks we have asked the question ‘Is your business prepared for roll out of the Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme?’, we have also discussed the impact that recent changes to European Union (EU) privacy laws may have on businesses that hold information on EU citizens. Today, we look at a proposed change to data regulation in Australia that would see individual privacy playing a more muted role in a new comprehensive consumer right to data. This right is proposed in the Productivity Commission’s Inquiry Report into Data Availability and Use. For the full 658-page report see http://www.pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/data-access/report/data-access.pdf. Australia’s under-utilised resource The Productivity Commission (The Commission) observes that Australia is behind other countries with similar governance arrangements (such as New Zealand…