Tim Pilgrim

Timothy Pilgrim has announced his resignation as privacy and freedom-of-information commissioner, effective March 24, two days out from the beginning of the mandatory data breach notification scheme.

A new data de-identification decision-making guide has been released to help public servants and others navigate this area. But there is still more work to be done on engagement, says Peter Leonard, a leading expert on the legal side of data use and privacy.

Privacy by Design is picking up steam, with advocates emboldened by the new reality of a growing data-driven economy. Victoria Draudins maps how the public sector privacy bodies are responding to the challenge.

Reports of tough new APS privacy rules and million-dollar fines for breaches are a little misleading. That’s in the existing privacy framework already, and it’s not yet clear at all how another layer in the form of a privacy code will change things. Mandarins need to explain.