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From 12 March 2013 content is no longer being added to, or amended, on this site, consequently some information may be out of date.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

How will privacy be protected on the Personal Property Securities Register?

The Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) has a number of mechanisms to protect individual grantors and other members of the public from misuse of the Personal Property Securities Register (PPS Register).

An individual will be able to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner if:

notice is not given to individual grantors (i.e. individuals who grant a security interest over their personal property) in relation to the addition, amendment or removal of information from the PPS Register
an unauthorised search of the PPS Register, or use of the personal information obtained as a result, occurs.

For information about making a complaint see our contact page.

More information about the PPS Register is available on their website at: http://www.ppsr.gov.au/AsktheRegistrar/Pages/default.aspx