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Fix your security, don’t cover up breaches: AU privacy commissioner

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Dissent

Stilgherrian reports:

Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim has issued a strong warning to companies that attempt to cover up data breaches, or have failed to take a proactive approach toward ensuring that personal data is kept secure.

Attempts to conceal a data breach “will not be looked well on by our office”, Pilgrim told the annual summit of the International Association of Privacy Professionals ANZ (iappANZ) in Sydney on Monday.

Read more on ZDNet.


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