Maintaining Data Privacy: Roles and Responsibilities in Australia

BUSSINESS

Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................... 3
Compare and contrast the respective roles and responsibilities of the Australian
government, businesses, and individuals in maintaining data privacy..................3
Conclusion............................................................................................................. 6
References............................................................................................................. 8

Introduction
This essay brings out a discussion on maintaining data privacy regulated by the Australian
government, individuals, and the businesses. Privacy, cyber security, and data protection are
some of the emerging and powerful challenges for the organisations and the government.
After the digital transformation, information hacking, and spoilage of individual trust has
threatened the authorities to maintain their goodwill. The essay will elaborate possible threats
and the related consequences to protect the data with the help of complying with the
government regulations (Kent, 2016).
Compare and contrast the respective roles and
responsibilities of the Australian government,
businesses, and individuals in maintaining data privacy.
Public data hacking is not only huge problem but it is also different. Ideally, privacy has been
spoiled when data hackers breach the company`s server then the relevant company incur huge
cost in identifying theft, financial loss, intellectual loss, and relative negative brand effect.
While protecting the sensitive data, government agencies are driving on a mission when there
is a greater similarity of dealing with the sensitive data, which finally become lucrative in the
hands of the burglars. Government facing challenges have been running deeper because of
growing vulnerable system. Various agencies are regularly found and targeted by the hackers
especially the teams trained under the national and state programs. Government often try to
prevent them against the hostile intruders, individuals, and the employees, as they want their
data to be conveniently present everywhere (Kent, 2016). On a short note, governmental
cyber security issues have become unique criteria of problems because of high volume of
threats and hug scale of other circumstances when the threats are not foiled. Bank robberies,
attackers, and most of the cyber threats have made a narrow and other intrusion to threaten
the data. It has been observed that some of the unidentified political hacktivists have the
ability to disrupt and equally destroy the governmental operations, city power grids, banking