Privacy Awareness Week

It’s Privacy Awareness Week (PAW)! This year we are focusing on Powering Up Your Privacy. We do this by focusing on the key principles of:

• Transparency in how we collect, use and disclose your and others’ personal information.
• Accountability of all employees in meeting our privacy obligations.
• Security of the personal information we hold.

Over the next few months you will see further articles outlining how we are Powering Up its privacy practices by:

• Simplifying our privacy policy and procedures.
• Releasing a new privacy consent form which will make it clear why personal information is collected, how it is used, and who we may share it with.
• Delivering  a new training module which will help you properly manage with personal information in your job.

We take privacy seriously and are a proud supporter of Privacy Awareness Week. Read about how we collect, handle and protect personal information in our privacy policy.

Privacy Awareness Week toolkit and resources 

The toolkit resources include:

• OAIC PAW Supporter Toolkit Guide, including sample copy (PDF, 2.8 MB)
• Fact Sheet for Businesses (PDF, 1 MB) 
• Fact Sheet for Government (PDF, 1 MB)
• Fact Sheet for Individuals (PDF, 1 MB)
• Email, web and background files (ZIP, 5.4 MB)
• Posters (ZIP, 6 MB)
• Social media tiles (ZIP, 4.3 MB)​
• Sample and example presentations (ZIP, 21.8 MB)

PAW website 

Don’t forget to check out (and share) our PAW 2024 website at paw.gov.au, where you will find information about this year’s campaign, as well as a message from Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind.

It includes a range of helpful advice and resources to help people, organisations and government agencies ‘power up your privacy’.

The PAW website is structured around key areas of transparency, accountability and security, in honour of this year’s overarching theme: Privacy and technology: Improving transparency, accountability and security.

PAW events

Privacy Awareness Week runs from 6-12 May. Commissioner Kind, together with other speakers, will be talking privacy at a range of events across the week, including:

• IAPP’s in-person event in Sydney on Monday, with a keynote from Commissioner Kind
• OIC Queensland’s in-person and livestreamed launch on Tuesday
• Online Commissioners’ panel event presented by OVIC on Wednesday

A range of other PAW events are also listed on our website – we suggest registering soon as they are likely to book out.

Supporters

You’ll see the PAW website already has a lot of supporters listed, and we are continuing to update it. If your organisation’s details are not there and should be, let us know.

On socials

We’ll be sharing a range of PAW-related social media posts using the hashtags #PAW2024 #PrivacyAwarenessWeek and #PowerUpYourPrivacy. You may like to use them too to help your content be identified as part of the campaign activity.

Get in touch

You can email us with any suggestions or questions at [email protected]. We would also love to hear your plans for PAW 2024.

For more updates, keep an eye on our LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook and X pages