Site Changes

On 1 November 2010 the Office of the Privacy Commissioner was integrated into the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and a new website established at www.oaic.gov.au.

Note 1: Major changes to the Privacy Act 1988 will come into effect in March 2014. Agencies, businesses and not for profits need to start preparing for these changes. For more information go to our privacy law reform page at www.oaic.gov.au
Note 2: From 12 March 2013 content is no longer being added to, or amended, on this site, consequently some information may be out of date. For new privacy content visit the www.oaic.gov.au website.

Personal Property Securities Register

The Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (PPS Act) established a single, national, online Personal Property Securities Register (PPS Register). The PPS Register allows lenders and businesses to register their security interests over personal property

Persons can search the PPS Register for limited purposes, including to find out if a security interest is registered over personal property

The PPS Act has mechanisms in place which protect the privacy of individuals who have personal information on the PPS Register

If you consider that a person has mishandled your personal information on the PPS Register, you can complain to the OAIC. Generally, before you make a complaint to the OAIC, you need to write to the person first to try to resolve the problem directly.