Information Privacy Principles - Victoria

Description

You will need to comply with these principles if you collect, hold, manage, use, disclose or transfer personal information. Personal information is any information or opinion that is recorded about an individual who can be identified from that information or opinion.

There are ten Information Privacy Principles. These are:

  • Collection
  • Use and Disclosure
  • Data Quality
  • Data Security
  • Openness
  • Access and Correction
  • Unique Identifiers
  • Anonymity
  • Transborder Data Flows
  • Sensitive Information.

Service type

Code of Practice

A code of practice is a set of rules which details how people in a certain industry should behave. A code of practice can be defined as a result of legislation or by industry regulators and bodies.

Other resources

Act(s) name

Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 Victoria

Administering agency

Department of Premier and Cabinet

Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner

Contact details

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