Privacy Act 1988 (Australia)
What is Privacy Act 1988 (Australia)?
Australian Privacy Act including the Australian Privacy Principles. It comprises 8 controls organised across 8 domains, and applies in Australia.
How Privacy Act 1988 (Australia) maps to other frameworks
All 8 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 8 domains Privacy Act 1988 (Australia) groups its controls into
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Questions people ask about Privacy Act 1988 (Australia)
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Query Privacy Act 1988 (Australia) programmatically
Privacy Act 1988 (Australia), its 8 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.
Privacy Act 1988 (Australia) API reference and MCP config →What Privacy Act 1988 (Australia) requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one Privacy Act 1988 (Australia) control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- AUPRV-1 APP 1 Open and Transparent Management + Privacy Management Framework
- AUPRV-3 APP 6-9 Use/Disclosure, Direct Marketing, Cross-Border, Government Identifiers
- AUPRV-4 APP 10-11 Quality, Security of Personal Information
- AUPRV-5 APP 12-13 Access and Correction of Personal Information
- AUPRV-6 Sensitive Information, PIA, Privacy by Design, Children
- AUPRV-7 Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) Scheme, Incident Response
- AUPRV-8 OAIC Cooperation, Vendor Management, Training, Complaints, Enforcement
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