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From 12 March 2013 content is no longer being added to, or amended, on this site, consequently some information may be out of date.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.

I`m worried about security once my ID is scanned. What obligations do businesses have?

Businesses have to:

keep personal information, such as your scanned ID, securely
destroy or permanently de-identify information when it is no longer necessary for the purpose it was collected for.

This answer is a summary only.

For more details, see our ID scanning information sheets:

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