Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)
What is Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)?
The 13 Australian Privacy Principles form the cornerstone of the privacy protection framework in the Privacy Act 1988, regulating how organisations and agencies handle personal information.. It comprises 13 controls organised across 5 domains, and applies in Australia.
How Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) maps to other frameworks
All 13 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 5 domains Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) groups its controls into
Frameworks that share controls with Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in Australian Privacy Principles (APPs). The number is how many Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
Australia Consumer Data Right - Banking (CDR)
12 shared controlsAPEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) System
11 shared controlsGDPR
11 shared controlsAustralia My Health Records Act 2012
5 shared controlsVirginia CDPA
4 shared controlsVietnam PDPD
4 shared controlsUSMCA Chapter 19 - Digital Trade (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement)
4 shared controlsUruguay DPL
4 shared controlsImplementation guides for frameworks that overlap Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)
Training on frameworks that overlap Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)
There is no course on Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) itself. These cover frameworks that share controls with it, so the material carries across even though the standard named is different.
Where Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) overlaps with the standards you already hold
What an auditor will ask you for
All 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) controls, each with what it requires, the artefacts an auditor will ask you for, and where it commonly fails. Free to read, nothing to fill in.
Read the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) evidence request listWhat Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) means in your sector
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Questions people ask about Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)
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Query Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) programmatically
Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), its 13 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) API reference and MCP config →What Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- APP-1 APP 1 - Open and transparent management of personal information
- APP-10 APP 10 - Quality of personal information
- APP-11 APP 11 - Security of personal information
- APP-12 APP 12 - Access to personal information
- APP-13 APP 13 - Correction of personal information
- APP-2 APP 2 - Anonymity and pseudonymity
- APP-3 APP 3 - Collection of solicited personal information
- APP-4 APP 4 - Dealing with unsolicited personal information
- APP-5 APP 5 - Notification of the collection of personal information
- APP-6 APP 6 - Use or disclosure of personal information
How much of another standard Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) already covers
Each crosswalk is judged control by control, and the mappings that were rejected are kept alongside the ones that held.
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