<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><html lang="en"> <head> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-16"> <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"> <title>The Office of the Privacy Commissioner</title> <link href="/css/default_css.asp" rel="stylesheet" rev="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <table cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="570"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <h1>Privacy Awareness Week</h1> <H4>Privacy Awareness Week 2008<br/> 24th August - 30th August</H4> <P>Information on PAW 2008 is available at:</P> <LI><A href="http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/australia.html">http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/australia.html</A> <hr/> <h4>Archived Material</h4> <H4>Privacy Awareness Week 2007</H4> <P>Various free Promotional items now available to download or order: please go to: </P> <UL> <LI><A href="http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/2007/australia-promo.html">http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/2007/australia-promo.html</A></LI></UL> <P>For information on <A href="http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/2007/">Privacy Awareness Week 2007</A> please go to:</P> <UL> <LI><A href="http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/2007/australia.html">http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/2007/australia.html</A></LI></UL> <DIV><FONT size=+0><SPAN class=358355723-12082007> <P><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=358355723-12082007>The Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Australia is again promoting Privacy Awareness Week, from&nbsp;26 August - 1 September 2007.&nbsp;&nbsp;The theme is <STRONG>"Privacy is your business"</STRONG>. </SPAN>The week is an opportunity for organisations and agencies covered by the <EM><A title=http://www.privacy.gov.au/act/index.html href="http://www.privacy.gov.au/act/index.html">Privacy Act 1998</A></EM> (Cth) to promote privacy awareness to their staff,&nbsp;customers, and to the wider community. </FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=358355723-12082007>T</SPAN>he Office&nbsp;has a number of&nbsp;<SPAN class=358355723-12082007>free </SPAN>Privacy Awareness Week </FONT></FONT><A title=http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/australia-promo.html href="http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/2007/australia-promo.html"><FONT title=http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/australia-promo.html face=Arial size=2>promotional items</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> available&nbsp;<SPAN class=358355723-12082007>to download or order </SPAN>as well as a list of suggestions of </FONT><A title=http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/australia-do.html href="http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/2007/australia-do.html"><FONT title=http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/australia-do.html face=Arial size=2>what you can do</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> to promote Privacy Awareness Week. There are also a range of activities planned that will take place during Privacy Awareness Week, view the </FONT><A title=http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/australia-schedule.html href="http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/2007/australia-schedule.html"><FONT title=http://www.privacyawarenessweek.org/paw/australia-schedule.html face=Arial size=2>events schedule</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2> for more details.</FONT></P></DIV></SPAN></FONT> <P> <HR> <P></P> <H4>Privacy Awareness Week 2006</H4> <P>The week is an opportunity for organisations and agencies affected by the <EM><A href="http://www.privacy.gov.au/act/index.html">Privacy Act 1998</A></EM> (Cth) to promote privacy awareness to their staff,&nbsp;customers, and to the wider community.</P> <P>Privacy Awareness Week is a promotional campaign first initiated by Privacy Victoria in 2001. This year, for the first time, Privacy Awareness Week has gone national and will be jointly promoted by our Office, the <A href="http://www.privacy.vic.gov.au/dir100/priweb.nsf">Victorian</A> and <A href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/privacynsw/ll_pnsw.nsf/pages/PNSW_index">NSW Privacy Commissioners</A> and the <A href="http://www.privacy.nt.gov.au/">Information Commissioner of the Northern Territory</A>. </P> <P>The theme is <STRONG>"Don't leave privacy to chance"</STRONG>.</P> <P align=center>[ <A href="#ten_steps">Ten Steps</A> | <A href="#poster">Poster</A> |&nbsp;<A href="#quiz">Quiz</A> | <A href="#schedule">Schedule</A>&nbsp;]</P> <H3 id=ten_steps>Ten Steps</H3> <P> 10 step guides on how to protect personal information for individuals, organisations and agencies.</P> <UL> <LI>10 Steps to Protecting Your Personal Information - <A href="/publications/ten_steps/ten_steps_personal.pdf">PDF</A>, <A href="/publications/ten_steps/ten_steps_personal.doc">Word</A> <LI>10 Steps to Protecting Other People s Personal Information - <A href="/publications/ten_steps/ten_steps_org.pdf">PDF</A>, <A href="/publications/ten_steps/ten_steps_org.doc">Word</A></LI></UL><A name=q></A> <H4 id=quiz>Privacy Quizzes</H4> <UL> <LI>Agencies - <A href="/publications/ten_steps/Quizagency.pdf">PDF</A>, <A href="/publications/ten_steps/Quizagency.doc">Word</A> <LI>Individuals - <A href="/publications/ten_steps/quiz4ind.pdf">PDF</A>, <A href="/publications/ten_steps/quiz4ind.doc">Word</A> <LI>Organisations - <A href="/publications/ten_steps/Quizorgs.pdf">PDF</A>, <A href="/publications/ten_steps/Quizorgs.doc">Word</A> </LI></UL> <H3 id=poster>Poster</H3> <P>A promotional poster&nbsp;<SPAN class=557414202-08082006>is available, <A href="/news/2006paw3.pdf">A3 PDF</A>, <A href="/news/2006paw4.pdf">A4 PDF</A>, as well as a <A href="/news/2006paw.jpeg">jpeg image</A> for on screen display.</SPAN></P> <P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><IMG height=401 alt="privacy awareness week poster" src="/news/2006paw.jpeg" width=283 border=0> </P> <H3 id=schedule>Schedule </H3> <H4>Monday 28 August</H4> <UL> <LI>Signing of the Attorney-General's Department and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's Memorandum of Understanding. <LI>Release of Privacy Awareness Week materials <UL> <LI> <A href="#ten_steps">10 step guides</A> on how to protect personal information for individuals, organisations and agencies; and <LI> <A href="#q">Privacy quizzes</A> to test your knowledge of the Privacy Act and privacy issues generally for individuals, organisations and agencies.&nbsp;</LI></UL></LI></UL> <P><FONT size=3><STRONG>Tuesday 29 August</STRONG></FONT></P> <P>Privacy Awareness Week Launch: The Office of the Privacy Commissioner together with Privacy NSW will be launching the week with a function on Tuesday 29 August. The Attorney-General, the Hon Philip Ruddock MP, will be present to release two important documents for the Office; the <A href="http://www.privacy.gov.au/publications/pia06/index.html">Privacy Impact Assessment Guide</A> and the Office's <A href="/policy/index.html">Layered Privacy Policy</A>.</P> <H4>Wednesday 30 August</H4> <P><A href="/news/06_19.html">Case notes</A>:&nbsp;Four new case notes illustrating the types of cases resolved by the Office will be released.</P> <H4>Thursday 31 August</H4> <P>Credit determinations: Two credit determinations will come into effect.</P> <H4>Friday 1 September</H4> <P><A href="/government/officers/index.html">Privacy Contact Officers</A> Meeting: the Office will host its regular quarterly meeting for Australian and ACT Government agency Privacy Contact Officer's in Canberra.</P></LI> <p><a href="">Return</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>