Posts tagged "Australian privacy laws"

Millions of Australians are now worrying about their driver’s licences, passport numbers and Medicare numbers ending up in the hands of criminals because Optus hung on to this data for six years.

Australia’s consumer watchdog, the ACCC, has recommended significant changes to our consumer protection and privacy laws.

A selling point of blockchain is once data is added to the chain, it can’t be changed or removed, but this is an issue given one's “right to be forgotten”.

The need to protect customer data has been very much at the forefront of the European Union’s new GDPR laws, which will come into effect on May 25. And Australian businesses need to aware of the changes.