The House of Representatives was sitting this week, but it was mostly routine stuff. Some telco data legislation, some ACCC recommendations, and yeah more data breaches.
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Parliament wasn’t sitting this week, but there’s been some movement from Home Affairs on the digital identity and data breach front, a cyber threat report, a new audit work program, and more annual reports.
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It was Budget week, a week full of more annual reports, and the week we saw the proposed changes to the Privacy Act in the wake of the Optus data breach — and all the other recent breaches.
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There weren’t any big-ticket items this week. It’s the calm before next week’s storm of a Budget session of Parliament. That’s why there’s so many reports to read. Next week will also see reforms to the Privacy Act.
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It’s still an attack even if the defences were useless. It’s still a crime even if it were easy to commit. Optus may have been a target ripe for the taking, and may well have been negligent, but the hackers are still the baddies here.
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This week we finally saw the legislation for the national anti-corruption commission, the robodebt royal commission kicked off, and there was much more — including some public consultations of note.
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