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Australian privacy enforcement has moved to the plumbing: what your tracking pixels transmit and what your staff can browse. Both determinations ordered technical fixes, not policy rewrites, and the registry modernisation is a rare piece of good news for integrators.
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Insider access just got expensive
- Who it affects
- financial services firms whose staff can browse customer records beyond their role
- What it can disrupt
- role based access controls and audit logging that cannot prove who viewed which account, and when
- Why it matters now
- determination made: compensation, apology, technical access controls and account level logging all ordered.
Tracking pixels triggered determinations
- Who it affects
- firms running third party pixels on pages touching sensitive data: hardship, health, identity, applications
- What it can disrupt
- consent mechanisms and data flows quietly shipping sensitive signals to advertising platforms
- Why it matters now
- determinations made. The OAIC has told every APP entity to review its pixels.
Company search gets an API
- Who it affects
- lenders, brokers, advisers and verification providers integrating ASIC company data
- What it can disrupt
- brittle ASIC Connect lookups and scraped registry data, which now have a supported replacement
- Why it matters now
- public beta live, part of the RegistryConnect modernisation programme.
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