Privacy Commissioner wants $1m fines for data breaches
Watch dog weighs in as government prepares to overhaul Privacy Act
Tue, 07 Feb 2017
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards wants penalties of up to $1 million for private or public sector organisations who leak their clients’ data and up to $200,000 for individuals.
At the moment, the commissioner can’t levy any financial penalty on, say, an organisation that inadvertently emails
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