Privacy compliance and data protection in the Working From Home (WFH) era
Many businesses (including our own) have recently made a swift transition to a remote working model to comply with social distancing measures and government-mandated lockdowns. What does this mean for compliance with privacy laws and data protection? In Australia, the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) still apply and regulate ‘APP entities’ even when the workers of that APP entity undertake their employment from home. Generally speaking, APP entities are organisations (whi