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.

Independent review of the Credit Reporting Code
Source: Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Published on 2021-03-25
Market and social research privacy code updated
Source: Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Published on 2021-03-03
Speech to the Special Committee to Review the Personal Information Protection Act
Source: Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia Published on 2021-02-23
Privacy, profit and the pandemic: Where we go from here
Source: Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia Published on 2021-02-05
Clearview AI’s unlawful practices represented mass surveillance of Canadians, commissioners say
Source: Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia Published on 2021-02-03
Privacy protection authorities to release their findings following investigation into Clearview AI
Source: Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia Published on 2021-02-02
Recommendations following investigation into FOI processing by Home Affairs
Source: Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Published on 2021-01-28
Making privacy a priority amid the ‘new normal’: Data Privacy Day Commissioner statement
Source: Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia Published on 2021-01-28
Human factor dominates latest data breach statistics
Source: Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Published on 2021-01-27
Information Commissioner orders compensation payable by Home Affairs for breaching detainees’ privacy
Source: Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Published on 2021-01-26
Appearance before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) on contact tracing applications
Source: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada Published on 2020-05-28