Privacy Act 1988
Statute
Australia
· 1988
The Privacy Act 1988 is Australia's principal data-protection law, setting the Australian Privacy Principles that govern how personal information is collected, used, and disclosed. It is the privacy foundation the Consumer Data Right is built on top of — the CDR adds a data-sharing right and its own privacy safeguards, but the Privacy Act is the baseline any Australian financial-data sharing has to respect.
Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or
customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates
specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.
Regions
Industries
Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.