Australian mandatory data breach regime moves closer to reality

As mentioned in our previous legal update, the Attorney-General's Department has released an exposure draft of the Australian Government's promised mandatory data breach notification bill. The Attorney-General's Department sought comments on an exposure draft of the Privacy Amendment (Notification of Serious Data Breaches) Bill 2015 (Cth) (Exposure Bill). The time for submissions has now closed and the Attorney-General's Department has published a number of the non-confidential submissions in relation to the Exposure Bill on its website.

What submissions were made?

The published submissions were made by 45 separate organisations, agencies and individuals, including:

• industry and consumer groups;