Current as at 28 February 2017
The Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 (the Bill) received Royal Assent on 22 February 2017. The resulting legislation, the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017, amends the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act) to require entities covered by that Act to:
- undertake an assessment process if they are aware that there are reasonable grounds to suspect there may have been an eligible data breach, but does not know if there are reasonable grounds to believe that there has been a breach; and
- notify both the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and affected individuals if they are aware that there are reasonable grounds to believe there has been an eligible data breach (after completing the above assessment or otherwise).
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