A generational change in privacy regulation in Australia
Helping you outpace change
The Australian Government has announced tranche 1 of its proposals for a generational change in privacy regulation, as part of a broader agenda to improve digital safety and cyber resilience.
Outpacing change means developing the core technical and organisational capabilities to adapt to the increasingly intense and uncertain regulatory compliance and reform environment. It means better governance, control and risk management capabilities to help organisations not only adapt to and thrive under coming privacy reforms, to improve cyber security, and to successfully respond to regulator, consumer and shareholder scrutiny.
At Ashurst, our combination of legal and risk experts help our clients build operational resilience through effective data privacy and risk management. We provide end-to-end, whole-of-life-cycle expertise across the complexity and opportunities data, privacy and risk brings. Working together, our legal, risk advisory and programme delivery teams bring industry experience when implementing regulatory obligations.
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