News (85)

  • Rudd Govt to abolish patient privacy

    The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has slammed draft legislation brought forward by the Federal Government, which will allow it the right to access individual patients' records.

  • Data breach laws years away

    The Australian Law Reform Commission yesterday released a report recommending Australia introduce data breach disclosure laws but Senator John Faulkner said that bridge would not be crossed by government at least for the next 18 months.

  • Privacy rules for a Web 2.0 world

    Former privacy commissioner Malcolm Crompton says governments are not doing enough to attract citizens to use their online services due to an overly risk-averse and closed-minded approach to liability and privacy.

  • Treasury gets privacy help over businesses' reporting

    The Federal Treasury has issued a tender seeking privacy consultancy services for the government's Special Business Reporting initiative, a scheme to simplify regulated reporting processes for Australian businesses.

  • Will Australia's privacy overhaul be dumped?

    Privacy advocates fear that the long-awaited overhaul to Australia's 20 year old Privacy Act will die before it ever sees the light of day.

More News >

Blogs (1)

Features and Case Studies (17)

  • Datacentre 2020: Data security gets physical

    In 2020, datacentres are estimated to be cleaner, greener and more flexible but will they be any safer?

  • UK: Data breach offences deserve jail time

    Top executives should face prison if their organisations are found to be responsible for losing customer data.

  • The future of managed e-mail

    MailGuard's Andrew Johnson and MessageLabs' Nick Hawkins -- the leaders of two popular managed e-mail services specialists -- go head to head.

  • Biometrics: Still searching for a pulse

    A few years ago, the uptake of biometric technology was considered a sure thing. But fast forward to present day and ZDNet Australia can reveal that companies are reluctant to use biometrics due to their negative stigma.

  • NSW mothers to get state-wide database

    Mothers in NSW can look forward to their maternity data being recorded on a new state-wide database designed to provide better access to life-saving information. However the data will also be made available to GPs over the Web as well as used for research purposes.

More Features and Case Studies >

Create an e-mail alert for "privacy act"
ZDNet Australia Alerts is an e-mail alert service which provides personalised news, features and reviews to readers’ inbox on an hourly, daily and weekly basis.
Alert:
privacy act


Frequency: *

Filter Tags

  1. Popularity: 4 aca
  2. Popularity: 4 act
  3. Popularity: 3 adma
  4. Popularity: 3 alrc
  5. Popularity: 3 alston
  6. Popularity: 3 australia
  7. Popularity: 3 authentication
  8. Popularity: 3 biometrics
  9. Popularity: 3 breach
  10. Popularity: 6 business
  11. Popularity: 4 copyright
  12. Popularity: 8 data
  13. Popularity: 7 data breach
  14. Popularity: 3 data leakage
  15. Popularity: 5 disclosure
  16. Popularity: 4 e-mail
  17. Popularity: 3 email
  18. Popularity: 3 employees
  19. Popularity: 3 faulkner
  20. Popularity: 4 federal
  21. Popularity: 3 google
  22. Popularity: 11 government
  23. Popularity: 3 hacking
  24. Popularity: 3 identity theft
  25. Popularity: 2 infringement
  26. Popularity: 3 it security
  27. Popularity: 4 kazaa
  28. Popularity: 4 law
  29. Popularity: 7 legislation
  30. Popularity: 2 marketing
  31. Popularity: 3 medicare
  32. Popularity: 3 mipi
  33. Popularity: 3 music
  34. Popularity: 4 p2p
  35. Popularity: 4 peer-to-peer
  36. Popularity: 2 phishing
  37. Popularity: 3 piracy
  38. Popularity: 44 privacy
  39. Popularity: 6 privacy commissioner
  40. Popularity: 3 reform
  41. Popularity: 3 roger clarke
  42. Popularity: 25 security
  43. Popularity: 14 spam
  44. Popularity: 3 storage
  45. Popularity: 5 t&b
  46. Popularity: 3 technology
  47. Popularity: 3 technology & business
  48. Popularity: 3 vivienne
  49. Popularity: 4 vivienne fisher
  50. Popularity: 3 web

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Suzanne Tindal Sick of broken tender sites
    Some of the state governments desperately need to invest in more user-friendly tender sites so that looking for information on government tenders doesn't have to be a game of blind man's bluff.
  • Array Cyberwar: What is it good for?
    In this week's episode, Cyberwar. What is Australia's place in the world of digital warfare? What are the implications for the NBN?
  • Array Is wholesale-only backhaul just a pipedream?
    The potential acquisition of Pipe Networks by SP Telemedia has raised the question about whether vertically integrated backhaul providers will mean higher wholesale prices for ISP customers.
  • More blogs »

Back to top

Featured