Submission: Inquiry into Privacy and Personal Information Protection Amendment Bill 2021

The Allens Hub along with the Australian Human Rights Institute and ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society have made a joint submission to the NSW Department of Communities and Justice regarding the Inquiry into Privacy and Personal Information Protection Amendment Bill 2021.

A pdf copy of the submission is here. 

The submission focuses on aspects of the Bill on which our research can shed light as per the below:

1. reasons why we support a Mandatory Notification of Data Breach Scheme (MNDB scheme);

2. a suggestion for reframing the “serious harm” threshold in the definition of “eligible” data breach;

3. a suggestion to incorporate reflection on the extent to which encryption is protective in section 59G(c); and

4. a suggestion to remove “date of birth” from section 59Q(1).