Australian Privacy Principles Archives - King & Wood Mallesons Pulse

Not child’s play! What you need to know about the Children’s Online Privacy Code

18 June 2025

By Michael Swinson, Peta Stevenson, Luke Hawthorne

On 12 June 2025, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) announced the release of its Issues Paper on the forthcoming Children’s Online Privacy Code (the Code).

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Personal Information- it’s all “about” you

25 January 2017

By Michael Swinson

Should data generated within a telecommunications network in the course of transmitting calls and other messages be treated as personal information under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)?

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Australian Privacy Commissioner takes expansive view of jurisdiction in Ashley Madison case

31 August 2016

By Patrick Gunning

Many regulators take an expansive view of their remit, and the Australian Privacy Commissioner has acted in this way in the Ashley Madison case.

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Lessons to be learned from the OAIC’s security assessment of St Vincent’s Hospital

30 July 2015

By TJ Saw

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