{"id":323,"date":"2014-05-14T21:47:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T11:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigray.com.au\/admin\/?p=323"},"modified":"2014-05-14T21:47:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T11:47:59","slug":"new-privacy-laws-could-affect-your-websites-privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigray.com.au\/admin\/new-privacy-laws-could-affect-your-websites-privacy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"New privacy laws could affect your website&#8217;s privacy policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New changes to the <i>Privacy Act 1988\u00a0<\/i>have now come in to force and will affect government agencies, businesses with an annual turnover of more than $3 million, or business and entities in certain industries.<\/p>\n<p>The changes introduce a new set of harmonised privacy principles that all privacy policies of individual business and other relevant entities must comply with. The principles outline matters such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>access to privacy policies<\/li>\n<li>how an individual can access their personal information stored by an entity<\/li>\n<li>what types of information are collected and held by the entity<\/li>\n<li>why information is collected by the entity<\/li>\n<li>how complaints in relation to privacy matters are to be resolved<\/li>\n<li>disclosure matters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Office of the Australian Information has produced several fact sheets in relation to the recent changes. These can be accessed on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaic.gov.au\/privacy\/privacy-news\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New changes to the Privacy Act 1988\u00a0have now come in to force and will affect government agencies, businesses with an annual turnover of more than $3 million, or business and entities in certain industries. The changes introduce a new set of harmonised privacy principles that all privacy policies of individual business and other relevant entities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,32,11,12],"tags":[33,34],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-transactions","category-commercial-law","category-internet-and-online-business","category-law-reform","category-new-laws","tag-privacy","tag-privacy-policies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigray.com.au\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigray.com.au\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigray.com.au\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigray.com.au\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigray.com.au\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigray.com.au\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigray.com.au\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigray.com.au\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigray.com.au\/admin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}