Even in settings you might consider off-limits, like a visit to your cardiologist or gynaecologist, businesses you have probably never heard of are collecting, profiling, trading and monetising your data. Welcome to the shady world of data brokering, an industry estimated to be worth US$240 billion globally. Data brokering practices are opaque, which makes it…
Prevention, notification, compensation: lessons from a government data breach managed badly
What happens when a mailout goes horribly wrong – and then the data breach notification is worse The release earlier this month of the OAIC’s 2023 Community Attitudes to Privacy Survey has revealed that in the prior 12 months, 47% of adult Australians had been notified by an organisation that their data had been involved…
The great con job: how the media and marketing industry is getting away with tracking Australians
Australians don’t want to be tracked. We don’t want to be tracked, profiled, packaged up and traded, then targeted. Across surveys from the OAIC, ACCC and the Consumer Policy Research Centre, we know that Australians regard online surveillance of our online behaviour, for the purpose of profiling us and sharing our data to fuel targeted,…
Keeping it fake: the legal and ethical implications of synthetic data
It may seem counter-intuitive, but even synthetic data can have privacy impacts. Companies and governments alike demand masses of data for operational, policy and research uses, but between large scale data breaches and the re-identification of published datasets, privacy risks abound. Is synthetic data the solution? There are a number of use cases for which…
To fix the Privacy Act, we need one extra sentence
Indirect identification, individuation, disambiguation, distinguishing from all others, or singling out…. call it what you want, but the statutory definition of ‘personal information’ needs to clearly state that it includes when individuals can be singled out and acted upon, even if their identity is not known. Yet as they now stand, the proposals to amend…
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