The Full Bench Issue 2 2018

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Notifiable Data Breaches: Australia’s New Privacy Law Scheme Matthew Keevers

es) Act 2017 (Cth) is the latest government strategy to ease concerns of protection of

Introduction

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n May 2018, the Commonwealth Bank of

statements from almost 20 million accounts.1

What is it?

- Breaches) Act 2017 (Cth) (‘the Act’) marks a

to protect these types of information.2 Privacy law, like many other areas of the law,

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ness operators, political parties, agencies or 3

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