News
The following news feed provides an overview of the current activities and news from APPA members.
The articles on this page are updated regularly from members’ news and media pages. If you have any questions or concerns about the content contained in the articles, please contact the respective member. You can locate members’ details underneath each article or on our Contact us page.
- The Global Privacy Assembly is extending invitations to applicants for the GPA Reference Panel.
Established in 1979, the GPA is an international forum of data protection and privacy authorities, which seeks to provide leadership at the international level by connecting the efforts of more than 130 data protection and privacy authorities from across the globe. If you wish to know more about the GPA’s current priorities, please visit the GPA website.
The GPA Reference Panel is a contact group of external stakeholders, comprising representatives of relevant civil society organizations; academic institutions; think tanks; non-privacy supervisory authorities; representatives of public authorities, such as law enforcement authorities; representatives of public authorities, such as law enforcement authorities; and representatives of the private sector.
The application window will commence from 22 January 2021 until 12:00 noon GMT, 19 February 2021. The call will run for four weeks. All relevant information can be found on the GPA website from 22 January 2021.
- Human factor dominates latest data breach statistics
- Information Commissioner orders compensation payable by Home Affairs for breaching detainees’ privacy
- Update to the joint statement on global privacy expectations of video teleconferencing companies
- Commissioner rejects argument government's emergency powers override public interest disclsoure provision; determines s. 25 of FIPPA does not require Ministry of Health to disclose requested COVID-19 information
- OAIC 2020 highlights infographic
- Privacy Act reform crucial to building public trust
- Commissioner to review BC’s licensed private sector liquor and cannabis retailers
- Cadillac Fairview collected 5 million shoppers’ images
- Trust through transparency
- Statement from BC Information and Privacy Commissioner on Right to Know Week
- Appearance before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) on contact tracing applications
- Privacy in the news (10 – 16 April 2020)
- Privacy in the news (3 – 9 April 2020)
- No judgement due to elapse of time - Watson v Employers Mutual Limited
- "DHB blames privacy for not revealing where Covid-19 cases are"
- Privacy in the news (27 March – 2 April 2020)