Australia finally has mandatory data breach notification

By Allie Coyne on Feb 13, 2017 1:18PM

After many years of trying.

Australia will have a mandatory data breach notification scheme in place within the year after several aborted attempts, following the passage of legislation through the senate today. The Labor and Liberal parties today united to pass the government's Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) ...

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