APPs - Australia Privacy Act

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Last Updated on ديسمبر 2, 2024

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The Australia Privacy Act 1988 (APA) was enacted to protect the privacy of data subjects and regulate how Australian agencies and organizations with an annual turnover of more than $3 million handle their customers’ personal information.

The APA also includes 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), which apply to private sector organizations, as well as most Australian Government agencies. Organizations that are required to abide by these principles are collectively referred to as ‘APP entities.’

The APA also regulates the privacy component of the consumer credit reporting system, tax file numbers, and health and medical research. APP entities are required to manage personal information openly and transparently and take such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to implement practices, procedures and systems relating to the entity's functions or activities that will ensure compliance with the APPs.


The solution

Securiti enables organizations to comply with APA through AI-driven PI data discovery, DSR automation, documented accountability, enhanced visibility into data processing activities, and AI-driven process automation.

Australia Privacy Act Regulation Solution

Securiti supports enterprises' journey toward compliance with APA through automation, enhanced data visibility, and identity linking.


 

Customize a Data Subject Rights Request Portal for Seamless Customer Care

Create customized web forms according to your brand image using the DSR request format. Accept verified data subject rights requests. Automate the initiation of fulfillment workflows when verified requests are received.

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Australia Act dsr handling

Automate data subject access request handling

APP: 12

Data subjects need to be notified about their data privacy rights, and organizations are required to simplify the initiation of verified DSR requests. Automating the delivery and generation of secure data access reports will greatly reduce the risk of compliance violations and the workforce required to comply with all requests.

Secure Fulfillment of Data Access

APP: 12

Any organization looking to comply must disclose information to the data subjects within a limited time frame of receiving a verifiable data request. This will be free of charge and delivered through a secure, centralized portal.

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Automate Processing of Rectification Requests

APP: 13

With the help of automated data subject verification workflows across all appearances of a subject’s personal data, you can seamlessly fulfill all data rectification requests.

Automate Erasure Requests

APPs: 4.3, 11.2

Fulfill data subjects’ erasure requests swiftly through automated and flexible workflows.

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Continuous Monitoring and Tracking

APA Sections: 16A, 16B, 80P, APPs: 1, 3, 5, 6, 11

Keep track of risks involved by continuously scanning and monitoring data against non-compliance to subject rights, security controls, or data residency.

Automate People Data Graph

APPs: 1, 4, 5, 6, 10

Discover personal information stored across all your internal and external systems within the organization and link it back to a unique data subject. Visualize personal data sprawl and identify compliance risks.

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Meet Cookie Compliance

APA Section: 6.1, APPs: 3.3(a), 3.5, 3.6, 6.1(a), 7.3, 7.4, 8.2

Automatically scan the web properties within your organization, categorizing tags and cookies. Also, build customizable cookie banners, collect consent, and provide a preference center.

Monitor and Track Consent

APA Section: 6.1, APPs: 3.3(a), 3.5, 3.6, 6.1(a), 7.3, 7.4, 8.2

Track consent revocation of data subjects to prevent the transfer or processing of data without their consent. Seamlessly demonstrate consent compliance to regulators and data subjects.

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Assess APA readiness

APA Section: 16C, APPs: 1, 3, 8, 11

With the help of our multi-regulation, collaborative, readiness, and privacy impact assessment system, you can gauge your organization's posture against APA requirements, identify gaps, and address risks. You can seamlessly expand assessment capabilities across your vendor ecosystem to maintain compliance against APA requirements.


Map Data Flows

APPs: 1, 4, 5, 6, 10

Track data flows in your organizations, trace this data, catalog, transfer, and document business process flows internally and to service providers or third parties.

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Australia Act vendor risk management

Manage vendor risk

APA Section: 16C, APPs: 1, 3, 8, 11

From a single interface, you can track privacy and security readiness for all your service providers. You can also collaborate instantly with vendors, automate data requests and deletions, and manage all vendor contracts and compliance documents.


Breach Response Notification

APA Part IIIC

Automates compliance actions and breach notifications to concerned stakeholders in relation to security incidents by leveraging a knowledge database on security incident diagnosis and response.

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Key Rights Under APA

Right to be Informed/Access: Data subjects have the right to know whether an entity has collected data about them, what data has been collected about them, how that data is being processed, and with whom it has been shared with.

Correction: Data subjects have the right to make requests to ensure the accuracy of their personal information.

Consent: Data cannot be processed without obtaining explicit consent from the data subject.

Objection: Data Subjects have the right to object to certain forms of processing, including processing relating to direct marketing communications.

Notification: Data Subjects have the right to be notified when their personal information is being collected.

Key Facts related to APA

1

Monetary penalties, administrative fines, and civil penalties under the APA may be applied in case of serious or repeated interference with privacy.

2

APA does not distinguish between data controller and data processor. All APP entities are subject to the same obligations under the APA (i.e., whether a data controller or a data processor). 

3

APA has a mandatory obligation to notify data subjects and the Privacy Commissioner for the ‘eligible data breach’.

4

Requires a privacy policy or statement containing the mandatory information. 

5

APA requires that APP entities must delete or de-identify all personal information in their possession once all legal requirements to keep it in an identified form have passed.

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