The Australian Financial Review – Nick Abrahams - mandatory data breach notification

Mandatory data breach notification changes will have a major impact on companies and individuals, writes partner Nick Abrahams.

This article was originally published by The Australian Financial Review and is reproduced with permission.

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The introduction of data breach notification laws will be a significant impost on companies, but may be the only defence left for people who value their privacy, writes Nick Abrahams.

The federal government has announced that, before the end of the year, we will have mandatory data breach notification. This means companies will be required to notify us whenever the information they hold about us gets hacked or otherwise inappropriately disclosed.