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
Frameworks that share controls with Privacy Act 1988 (Australia)
Each of these has at least one control mapped to a control in Privacy Act 1988 (Australia). The number is how many Privacy Act 1988 (Australia) controls are shared, counted from the mapping graph.
FERPA
7 shared controlsIndia DPDP Act
7 shared controlsIndiana Consumer Data Protection Act
7 shared controlsIowa Consumer Data Protection Act
7 shared controlsJamaica Data Protection Act 2020
7 shared controlsKentucky Consumer Data Protection Act
7 shared controlsSouth Korea PIPA
7 shared controlsLGPD
7 shared controlsWhere Privacy Act 1988 (Australia) overlaps with the standards you already hold
Where to get trained on Privacy Act 1988 (Australia)
One course in the catalogue covers Privacy Act 1988 (Australia) directly. Each is self-paced, includes the downloadable toolkit and the implementation playbook, and carries a certificate of completion.
Training more than one person? Ten seats of any course is $1,490 on a single licence, against $199 a seat bought one at a time.
What an auditor will ask you for
All 8 Privacy Act 1988 (Australia) 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.
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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
How ready are you for Privacy Act 1988 (Australia)?
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