Privacy Awareness Week
Privacy and technology: Improving transparency, accountability and security
From Monday 6 May to Sunday 12 May Join OVIC in celebrating Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) in 2024, exploring the theme of Privacy and technology: improving transparency, accountability, and security.
Understanding how the technology within your organisation works is key to transparency, accountability, and security.
You can build trust in your organisation by being transparent about your information handling practices. Have clear, legible privacy policies and individual notices of collection for each point of collection.
If you’re looking to level up your privacy practices this PAW, OVIC has guidance on how your organisation can assess its state of privacy to review and improve its practices.
We’ll be covering a number of topics relating to privacy and technology at our events and in our resources, including:
- What to consider before using AI;
- What it means to be transparent and accountable in the way we use technology;
- What it means to take ‘reasonable steps’ to protect privacy when using technology;
- Improving privacy when outsourcing IT services; and
- What to do if you experience a data breach.
OVIC encourages organisations and the community to get involved in PAW. Celebrate PAW 2024 by attending OVIC’s events, and downloading and sharing OVIC’s supporting materials.
We also encourage organisations to host their own PAW events, and we encourage organisations to get in touch and let us know how they plan to celebrate PAW 2024!
Follow us on LinkedIn and sign up to our newsletter to stay updated.
Further information and resources will be added to this page in the lead up to PAW.
Events 2024
Privacy Awareness Week launch
Monday 6 May, 10:00am – 11:00am (in person)
Lightning talk:
Reasonable steps: What are they, and when should you take them?
Tuesday 7 May, 2pm – 2:30pm
Panel discussion:
Privacy and technology: Improving transparency, accountability and security
Wednesday 8 May 11am – 12pm
Lightning talk:
Being privacy conscious when outsourcing IT services
Thursday 9 May 2pm – 2.30pm
Registrations for all events are now open.
Events happening in other jurisdictions
Tuesday 7 May 9:30am – 11:30am
Join us at the PAW launch in Queensland where Ms Carly Kind, Australia’s Privacy Commissioner, will deliver the keynote presentation titled, ‘Powering up privacy in the data age.’ Also hear from John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner, as he shares his thoughts on the Privacy Awareness Week theme, ‘Privacy and technology: Improving transparency, accountability and security’.
This will be followed by an expert panel discussion moderated by emcee and journalist, Ms Kim Skubris. The panel includes:
- Ms Carly Kind, Australia’s Privacy Commissioner
- Mr Chris McLaren, Chief Customer and Digital Officer, Queensland Government Customer and Digital Group
- Mr Scott McDougall, Queensland Human Rights Commissioner
- Mr Paxton Booth, Privacy Commissioner, Queensland.
More information at OIC Queensland’s website (oic.qld.gov.au)
Supporting materials
Starter pack
Download our starter pack containing all of the supporting materials in one .zip file (4.5Mb) including email signatures, social media images and posters. You can download individual supporting materials using the links below..
Email signatures
Click on the link below each email signature to download, or right click on an email signature and select “save image as”. Please note that you will have to add your own links onto the email signature using the email client of your choice for the “Click for more” to work.
Social media images
Click on the download link or right click on an image and select “save image as”.
Download this social media image
Download this social media image
Download this social media image
Download this social media image
Event social media images
Click on the download link or right click on an image and select “save image as”.
Download the panel discussion image
Download this Lightning Talk social media image
Download this Lightning Talk social media image
Posters
Click on the download link or right click on an image and select “save image as”.