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By Anne Wardell, Compliance Quarter. Photo by Jefferson Santos on Unsplash The OAIC has published its first quarterly statistics report under the NDB Scheme, Notifiable Data Breaches Quarterly Statistics Report: January 2018 – March 2018. It is interesting to note that the total number of breaches received for the first quarter was 63. Remember that the NDB only commenced at the end of February 2018. The report provides useful snapshots of the findings such as the top five industry sectors where an NDB occurred: The most common type of personal information revealed was contact information. It is perhaps of some concern that the next two most common types of information disclosed were financial details and health information: Although 73% of the eligible data breaches involved the personal information of fewer…

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) released its Annual Report last month. It summarises the work of the OAIC over the 2016-2017 year, and indicates areas of future focus. Today we look at three areas developments signalled in the Annual Report which may affect any business that deals with personal information. Ongoing implementation of the mandatory Notifiable Data Breach (NDB) regime We have talked about the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017 before (https://compliancequarter.com.au/business-prepared-roll-notifiable-data-breaches-scheme/) This new legislation establishes a mandatory Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme that will apply to federal government agencies and businesses covered by the Privacy Act 1988 (the Privacy Act)[1]. This new legislation means that from 22 February 2018, organisations covered by the Privacy Act will have to notify individuals, where there is a…

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OAIC releases first quarterly statistics report under the NDB Scheme

OAIC Annual Report 2017: Three developments of note for businesses that deal with personal information