COURSE CATEGORY
Substantive Law
Australian Privacy Principles
Updated 27 July 2022
The 2014 privacy reforms made changes to the Privacy Act, and importantly, the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) replaced the National Privacy Principles and Information Privacy Principles. The APPs apply to organizations, and Australian Government (and Norfolk Island Government) agencies.
This course provides lawyers with a practical overview of the APPs and the APPs impact on organizations that have Privacy Act obligations, many of which are clients or potential clients of lawyers.
Course Features
- Privacy legislation overview – the Privacy Act, the Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Act, the APPs and Credit Reporting Code of Conduct;
- The key definitions relating to information – personal information, sensitive information and the different kinds of credit information;
- Privacy compliance – what should organisations do to comply with the APPs?
- What are the APPs – a summary of the obligations;
- Privacy breaches – the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme that commenced on 22 February 2018, and data breach prevention, reporting and management;
- Selected privacy determinations made by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) , their key lessons and compliance tips;
- The OAIC’s focus in 2018-2019 and beyond; and
- Some practical tips for lawyers to help clients manage the privacy compliance.
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TARGET AUDIENCE
Lawyers wishing to gain a better understanding of the new privacy regime, particularly on the impact of the new APPs on organisations.
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Text based interactive module
Course Author: Karen Lee
Karen Lee was admitted to practice in 1997 in NSW. She holds a Master of Law and Management and specialises in banking and financial services law and legal knowledge management.
Karen is the Principal of Legal Know-How and she provides expert advice to firms and businesses on risk management, legal and business process improvement, legal documentation, regulatory compliance and knowledge management. Karen is the Specialist Editor of LexisNexis’ banking and finance law precedents, the General Editor of the Australian Banking Finance Law Bulletin and the Financial Services Newsletter, and author of Practical Guidance Banking & Finance modules. She has been a regular contributor to these and other professional publications on specialist legal topics such as PPS as well as in the areas of practice management and knowledge management.
Karen has worked extensively in-house, including as Head of Legal for a leading Australasian non-bank lender, as well as in top-tier private practice, including as Counsel at Allen & Overy and Clayton Utz. She has been involved in the PPS law reform process since 2008, including the preparation of detailed submissions to the Attorney General’s Department and the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs in relation to the development and review of the PPS legislation. She was a member of the Government’s PPS Legal Special Interest Group from inception and has actively participated in the PPS Stakeholders Forum. Among other things, she has acted for major financial institutions to prepare their core standard form documentation to be used for consumer and business banking under the PPS regime.
