Australia's Biometrics Institute launches privacy awareness checklist
Australia’s Biometric Institute will release its Biometrics Institute Privacy Awareness Checklist (PAC) to its member organizations to promote good privacy practices; the Biometrics Institute Privacy Code already is at a higher level than the Australian Privacy Act 1988
As part of the Privacy Awareness Week in May 2010, Australia’s Biometrics Institute will be releasing the Biometrics Institute Privacy Awareness Checklist (PAC) to promote good privacy practice. The aim is to lift privacy awareness across all membership organizations. There will be a requirement to indicate to the Biometrics Institute whether the PAC will be reviewed.
“Our aim is to continue to lift privacy awareness with all our members,” Isabelle Moeller, general manager of the Biometrics Institute states, “It is absolutely critical now that biometrics are a fact of everyday life with passports, call centers, and other day to day uses.”
Forensic Magazine reports that the Biometrics Institute Privacy Code already is at a higher level than the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and this includes mandatory Privacy Impact Assessments and audits, the inclusion of employee records and inclusion of small businesses. All of these are not requirements of the current Privacy Act.
The PAC includes guiding information about Information Holdings, Management Policies, and Procedures, Privacy Awareness and Training, Privacy Analysis, Risk and Threat Assessment, Privacy Enhancing Responses, and Compliance Mechanisms.
The PAC will be presented to new and renewing Biometrics Institute members.
The Biometrics Institute is a leading biometrics body representing over 100 organizations. It has been established to promote the responsible use of biometrics technologies. t is independent and not-for-profit and has user and vendor members covering a significant span of Australian and New Zealand government agencies, users and vendors.
