The Australian Department of Immigration has announced a set of measures to strengthen its control over the personal and private information it holds.
The new approach centres around an External Accountability Task Force that has been established within the department’s Integrity, Security and Assurance Division. Assistant secretary Stephen Wood will head up the task force, which will focus on strengthening the privacy protections and information management of the department, and liaise with the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman, the Human Rights Commission and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
The boost follows news around leaking of detained asylum seeker details and personal details of the G20 leaders who attended a summit in Brisbane, after they failed to notice Microsoft Outlook had autofilled the wrong email into the address bar.
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