Thousands of Australian privacy breaches going unreported
Posted in: Legal, Privacy & Security at 27/07/2011 18:43
There has been a 27 per cent jump in the number of incidents of stolen or lost personal information reported to the Privacy Commissioner in the past year but inadequate laws mean thousands of incidents go unreported.
At a seminar held this morning by the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, revealed his office had received 56 data breach notifications in the year to June 30 - up from 44 in the previous year.
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