Quoting from P. S. News. Edition Number 567. Updated 05 September 2017. http://www.psnews.com.au/aps/567/news/privacy-office-goes-public-with-plan?utm_source=aps567&utm_medium=email&utm_content=news1&utm_campaign=newsletter_aps
Privacy Office goes public with plan
The 2017–18 Corporate Plan from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) outlines its priorities and key success factors in “an unprecedented period of data innovation”.
Information and Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim said new products and services were transforming lives and ways of interacting with businesses and Government Agencies.
“Our Corporate Plan outlines how the OAIC will respond to the continued increase in community and commercial interest in privacy and information access in the information age,” Mr Pilgrim said.
“The Plan demonstrates the proactive, transparent and engaged approach to personal information and freedom of information regulation the OAIC will take to ensure that businesses and Agencies meet their responsibilities to communities, even as those responsibilities evolve.”
He said 2018 would mark 30 years since Parliament enacted the Privacy Act 1988 and this was a reminder of just how much the operating landscape had changed.
2017-18 priorities set out
“In 1988, personal data or information was largely collected and stored on paper — a radically different setting to today,” Mr Pilgrim said.
“But no matter how the environment evolves, Australians’ right to privacy remains as vital as ever.”
He said the same applied to information access rights, where interest in the information that underpinned Australian Government decisions continued to grow.
Mr Pilgrim said managing the nexus between data innovation, privacy and consumer trust had now become a defining issue for both the public and the private sectors.
He said the Corporate Plan could be accessed at the OAIC’s performance portal, which improved transparency by providing key performance and achievement measures in a simple and engaging way.
The portal includes interactive graphs and charts on the OAIC’s key activities, including complaints, inquiries, assessments, data breach notifications and more.
The 36-page Corporate Plan can be accessed at this PS News link. https://www.oaic.gov.au/resources/about-us/corporate-information/key-documents/corporate-plan-2017-18.pdf
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