Submission to the Productivity Commission’s Draft Data Availability and Use Report

Financial Rights believes that the key recommendations of the Productivity Commission’s Draft Report on Data Availability are fundamentally flawed and should be abandoned. We believe several basic privacy protections continuing to be missing including:

• Compensation for data breaches and re-identification and a tort for serious invasions of privacy;
• Easy and free access to justice for breaches including an external dispute resolution scheme that can making binding determinations and investigate systemic issues;
• An appropriately resourced and empowered regulator.

Without these basic protections, individuals will continue to not have trust and confidence with the access to justice regime when it comes to a privacy breach.