The Australian Law Reform Commission yesterday (13 August 2008) released a 2,700 page report recommending changes to the Privacy Act.
The impact of the proposed changes on enterprise operations goes way beyond controls on ensuring security when you record credit card details; it impacts on your business process for the collection, storage and use of all information on employees and customers.
The recommendations include the removal of the current exemption in relation to employee records and to expand the scope to new media including email address and web address information.
The impact of the proposed changes on enterprise operations goes way beyond controls on ensuring security when you record credit card details; it impacts on your business process for the collection, storage and use of all information on employees and customers.
The recommendations include the removal of the current exemption in relation to employee records and to expand the scope to new media including email address and web address information.
Ian Jordan, a senior associate in workplace relations at Mills Oakley Lawyers in Melbourne, notes “The biggest impact will be on business. The proposed changes to the Privacy Act will significantly expand the scope of privacy requirements for business and government”
If the proposed changes are given effect, enterprises that allow information to be used in ways other than it was intended face stiff fines for breach of the law.
The proposed changes even outline that information can only be disclosed for the enterprises primary or related secondary business purposes; and specifically address information collected in an obtrusive or unlawful way. Trans-border data flow and personal information of young people are also addressed in more detail.
If you have nothing to do for 3 or 4 weeks … you can download and view the report and its recommendations HERE.
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