The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner will also be restored to a three-commissioner structure after defunding by Coalition
Guardian Australia understands extra funding will be provided in the forthcoming federal budget for the OAIC to deal specifically with privacy-related data issues.
In the wake of those breaches, the federal government increased the fines payable by companies for repeated or serious data breaches from $2.2m to $50m. “The former Coalition government left Australia disgracefully unprepared for this challenge by failing to update privacy laws and scrapping the position of a standalone privacy commissioner,” Dreyfus said.
The attorney general’s announcement on Tuesday sees the OAIC restored to its original structure of an information commissioner, a privacy commissioner, and a freedom of information commissioner.
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