Information and Privacy Commission NSW

Rachel McCallum has been chosen to lead NSW’s Information and Privacy Commission. She has 30 years in legal practice and policy development.

The NSW information commissioner has reminded state government agencies of their responsibility in proactively delivering information to the public, after a new report identified low levels of compliance among departments.

NSW’s ICT strategy has set a target of having all government agencies using public cloud for a minimum of 25% of their ICT services by 2023.

Samantha Gavel has reminded government agencies to take a privacy-by-design approach when creating digital products and services.

Trust, transparency, data ethics, regulatory frameworks and empowering people to manage their data all feature in discussions about the online privacy and data management landscape. In the third of a four part series, The Mandarin canvasses these issues from three different perspectives: government, a digital media platform and consumer policy.