Posts tagged "Office of the Australian Information Commissioner"

Australia's privacy watchdog has launched court proceedings against Facebook, and consumers should hope this is only the first of many more actions by the privacy regulator.

TGI Fridays is the latest company to apologise to customers over a cyber security issue as breaches spike in the June quarter.

Given Facebook's historically laissez-faire approach to user data, perhaps a little regulatory interest is understandable.

There were 964 data breaches reported to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in the first year of mandatory reporting.