Notifiable Data Breaches: Draft Resources Released
Last Friday the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) released draft resources to help businesses comply with the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme. Under the NDS scheme, organisations covered by the Privacy Act are required to notify individuals if their personal information is involved in a data breach that is likely to result in serious harm. This will be an important area of compliance for all APP entities. The resources published on Friday cover: • Entities covered by the NDB scheme • Notifying individuals about an eligible data breach • Identifying eligible data breaches • The Australian Information Commissioner’s role in the NDB scheme. This is the first in a series of posts looking at the NDB scheme. In this post, we will examine the definition of a Notifiable Data Breach based…