Australia - Schedule
- Monday 25th August: Guide to Handling Personal Information Security Breaches released.
- Monday 25th August: Privacy Commissioner, Karen Curtis participated in a lively staff debate 'Privacy - an excuse for old thinking?' organised for Privacy Awareness Week by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
- Tuesday 26th August: Three publications released:
• Private Sector Information Sheet 26 – Interaction between the Privacy Act and the Spam Act
• Private Sector Information Sheet 27 - A step-by-step guide to internal investigations of privacy complaints by organisations
• Public Sector Information Sheet 2 - A step-by-step guide to internal investigations of privacy complaints by Australian and ACT government agencies - Wednesday 27th August: Privacy Awards gala dinner, Sydney
- Thursday 28th August: Video competition winner announced
- Thursday 28th August:
• Signing of a revised Memorandum of Understanding between the Australian and New Zealand Privacy Commissioners’ offices.
• Release of a short video on 20 years of the Australian Privacy Act
• Speeches from Australian Privacy Awards Presentations available - Thursday 28th August: APEC seminar on recent APEC meeting and next steps for the Data Privacy Sub-Group, Sydney, 12 - 2.30pm
Contact Colin Minihan and Joan Sheedy for further details. - Friday 29th August: Government Privacy Contact Officer Meeting, Canberra
- Friday 29th August:
• Publication of three Case Notes from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner
• Release of the winter edition of Privacy Matters Assistant Privacy
• Commissioner, Mark Hummerston will address staff of ASADA
