The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has released its Privacy Management Framework, which is intended to assist private- and public-sector organizations in meeting their Australian privacy compliance obligations. It follows previously released accountability/privacy governance guides issued by the respective Canadian, Hong Kong and French privacy regulators. In this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor, Anna von Dietze, CIPM, CIPP/E, examines the Australian and international context of the framework, its content and its practical implications. “This trend amongst privacy regulators to issue guides on privacy governance is no coincidence. Rather, it can be attributed to the global privacy principle of accountability, which is currently undergoing a significant evolution,” she writes.
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