Privacy Act 1988: A Case Study

Privacy Act 1988 is an Australian law that used to regulate on handling the personal information (Australian Government, 2015). Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) consists of principles are the basis of protection framework in Privacy Act 1988 and placed under schedule 1 with a total thirteen principles that organizations and government agencies should comply (OAIC, 2014). It is not necessary to follow each of the principles stated in APPs, but organizations are required to consider the principle to apply based on their own circumstances. The thirteen principles are seperated into five parts. Part one is the consideration of personal information privacy where the principle, open and transparent management, and individual is having options not to reveal their real identity while dealing with APP entity (Australian Government, 2015). In part two is about the collection of personal information, it includes the solicited information collection, dealing with the unsolicited information, and …show more content…
All the companies in Africa are given a year period of time to comply with the POPI act. This POPI act is used to control the organization on collecting, processing, sharing and storing another the personal data to ensure the data protection (POPI, 2013). The act is also used to protect the right of the individuals on accessing and controlling the personal data, because the data can be sold to the third parties used for other purposes. As both organization and individuals are responsible to protect the personal data, and obey with the rules and legislation on cross-border data protection. There are few conditions should be complied with in order to process the personal data includes accountability, purpose specification, , information quality, processing limitation, further processing limitation, openness, security safeguards and data subject participation (POPI,