Respective Roles and Responsibilities of Australian Government, Businesses, and Individuals in Maintaining Data Privacy

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Respective Roles and Responsibilities of Australian Government, Businesses, and Individuals in
Maintaining Data Privacy
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Introduction
Evolution of online setting leads to a remarkable influence on how data privacy are
maintained in different businesses and within governmental agencies. The influence is on the
amount as well as types of individual data disclosed by different citizens together with
consumers. In a country such as Australia, different stakeholders that include and not limited to
government, business operators, and common citizens have the matrix of regulatory measures
(Krasnow & Bruening, 2014). Such measures are always forming the essential elements that
affect security practices and the way such stakeholders respond to potential security breaches.
The concept of maintaining data privacy and other related concerns has been around Australian
community for longer duration. In the region, issue of maintaining data privacy have emerged to
be major concern that affects operations of different businesses (Geer, 2014). Hence, most
companies have security strategies that are planned to develop a secured place of work for
management along with workers in general.
Comparison of respective roles together with responsibilities of the Australian government,
businesses, alongside individuals in maintaining data privacy
Both Australian governments, businesses, together with individuals have responsibilities
and roles of allowing different corporations. They allow such organizations to monitor their
systems, implement defensive measure, and share and receive data concerning threats on data on
the voluntary foundation. These three bodies create the framework for information sharing
network between and among the private and public sectors (Aperjis & Huberman, 2015).
Essentially, individuals and businesses allow private organizations to share security threat-
related data with the federal Australian government or other private organization. Government,

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businesses, and individuals work by improving information about defensive measures that can be
used to prevent, detect, or militate against instances of cyber security threat. All these
improvements have been essential in maintaining data privacy.
Removing any personally identifiable data
Businesses operate by removing any personally identifiable data from data that is shared
with government or other individuals within Australia or other entities. The idea has been great
in maintaining data privacy as no other hacker can access such data. For instance, concern
around the potentials for I individual data to be shared with other parties has been one of the
major concerns of opponents to the introduction of legislatively-backed collaboration of cyber
security regime within the Australian government (von Dietze & Allgrove, 2014). Government,
businesses, and individuals work by authorizing different organizations to take defensive
measures for cyber security functions to protect the property or rights of networks. These form
essential measures aimed at preventing, detecting, or mitigating the known or suspected data
security threat or vulnerability (Blume, 2015). Such ideas by Australian government, businesses,
and individuals are similar as they do not permit different organizations to undertake offensive
efforts of data privacy such as ‘hacking back’ against another individual, entity, or organization.
Training the troops
Different governmental institutions in Australia along with businesses and individuals in
the same region concentrate on ideas of empowering their subordinates. It is a crucial aspect in
their operations as it ensures that every staff is aware of their significance in process of
maintaining and managing data during their operations. It is apparent that most common, as well
as destructive mistakes are due to human error (Jaatinen, 2016). Australian government and