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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