APPs summary
1. APP1 — open and transparent management of personal information
Having a clearly expressed and up to date APP privacy policy. Make it publically available and free of charge. Manage personal information in an open and transparent way, so that people know how their personal information will be used.
2. APP2 — anonymity and pseudonymity
Where possible, give people the option of not identifying themselves, or of using a pseudonym (fake name).
3. APP3 — collection of solicited personal information
Only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to fulfil the organisation’s functions and activities. There is a higher standard to the collection of sensitive information such as details on a person’s health and whether
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APP10 — quality of personal information
Take reasonable steps to ensure the personal information that is collected is accurate, up to date and complete. Take reasonable steps to ensure the personal information that is used or disclosed is accurate, up to date and complete, having regard to the purpose of the use or disclosure. Relevance and not misleading are also important considerations in terms of the quality of personal information.
11. APP11 — security of personal information
Take reasonable steps to protect personal information held from interference, misuse and loss, and from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Security safeguards can be technical or administrative, such as having a “clean desk” policy where all paper records must be locked away at night, and installing virus protection software and firewalls to protect electronic data.
12. APP12 — access to personal information
Provide access to personal information when requested by the person involved unless a specific exception applies (such as denying access is required or authorised by or under an Australian law or a court/tribunal order).
13. APP13 — correction of personal
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Breaches (such as sending a communication that contains personal information to the wrong recipient) may result in fines, damage to reputation and loss of trust from customers.
Breach prevention
Security is a basic element of information privacy. Organisations should be committed to preventing Breaches, and should have a range of technical, administrative and other security safeguards in place to protect personal information from interference, misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure (in compliance with APP11).
Dealing with Breaches
Organisations should deal with Breaches in an appropriate and timely manner. There may be internal and external actions that need to be taken. In taking any action, organisations may wish to be guided by these steps as suggested by the OAIC on responding to a Breach (whether it is actual or suspected):
1. Step 1: Contain the Breach and do a preliminary assessment
2. Step 2: Evaluate the risks associated with the Breach
3. Step 3: Notification
4. Step 4: Prevent future
In reality, employees do have to pass on certain information which is why the Health and Social Care Information Centre published guidelines that staff can follow regarding confidentiality (The Open University, 2015, p. 59). There are five rules within these guidelines, firstly, it states that any information about a person is to be
The Data Protection Act 1998 places controls on the length of time, who has access, and how much personal information can be stored on an individual by organisations, businesses and the Government. Any private information must be kept secure in compliance with the law. This ensures the individual’s right to privacy and confidentiality is upheld. (Gov.uk.
The Data Protection Act controls how your personal information is used by organisations, businesses or the government.
Privacy and security issues have become one of the top concerns among computer users in today’s market. It has become a game of survival of the fittest in protection of your security. The only true way to defend yourself is knowledge. You should prepare your self against hackers, spammers and potential system crashing viruses and web bugs. Lets focus on how you can protect yourselves from the would be thieves.
Privacy does not have a single definition and it is a concept that is not easily defined. Information privacy is an individual's claim to control the terms under which personal information is acquired, disclosed, and used [9]. In the context of privacy, personal information includes any information relating to or traceable to an individual person [ 1]. Privacy can be defined as a fundamental human right; thus, privacy protection which involves the establishment of rules governing the collection and handling of personal data can be seen as a boundary line as how far society can intrude into a person's affairs.
Now with the introduction of the internet it is becoming increasingly difficult to control the publication of personal and private information. Any information that is collected should not be used for any other purpose except for what it was originally accepted.
Workplaces must keep suitable and accurate records required by the regulations of RIDDOR; these records help to identify patterns in accidents and injuries and will help when risk assessments are carried out. Personal records of employees must also be kept, but must be kept confidential in order to comply with the Data Protection Act. In the event of work-related claims workplaces may also insure they keep all their records and information as insurance company will want to see these records.
Explain safeguarding how you work, to ensure all are safe and confident to raise issues.
Security helps the organization meet its business objectives or mission by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards. Businesses should establish roles and responsibilities of all personnel and staff members. However, a Chief Information Officer should be appointed to direct an organization’s day to day management of information assets. Supporting roles are performed by the service providers and include systems operations, whose personnel design and operate the computer systems. Each team member must be held accountable in ensuring all of the rules and policies are being followed, as well as, understanding their roles, responsibilities and functions. Organizations information processing systems are vulnerable to many threats that can inflict various types of damage that can result in significant losses (Harris, 2014). Losses can come from actions from trusted employees that defraud the system, outside hackers, or from careless data entry. The major threat to information protection is error and omissions that data entry personnel, users, system operators and programmers make. To better protect business information resources, organizations should conduct a risk analysis to see what
Richards, J (2003) states that confidentiality ‘is the respect for the privacy of any information about a client/patient’. The purpose for this act to be put into place in 1998 is to protect the rights of individual’s information from being disclosed. Individuals like care workers, social workers and doctors are not allowed to share any personal information without the service user’s consent. The type of information that should be disclosed from other individuals are: name, age, sex, address and the individuals date of birth. Confidentiality is when two individuals are discussing their personal information for example a social worker and their client, this will then build trust between them. This is because the patient is aware that the information will stay disclosed and will not be shown without their permission. In some situations, information needs to be revealed by law. The (GMC Policy) states that information can only be revealed if the information was ‘likely to cause serious harm to the individual or someone else.’ For example, when I was volunteering at Bradford Central Foodbank and I was communicating with the service user. They brought up that they were feeling suicidal and had previously tried taking their life. To me it felt like they were crying out loud for help. After listening to what they had to say, I decided to tell my manager and let them help the individual. When going
Terms and Laws have gradually change overtime dealing with different situations and economic troubles in the world in general. So then dealing with these issues the workplace has become more complex with little or no rights to privacy. Privacy briefly explained is a person’s right to choose whether or not to withhold information they feel is dear to them. If this something will not hurt the business, or its party members then it should be kept private. All employees always should have rights to privacy in the workplace. Five main points dealing with privacy in public/private structured businesses are background checks, respect of off duty activities/leisure, drug testing, workplace search, and monitoring of workplace activity. Coming to a conclusion on privacy, are there any limits to which employers have limitations to intrusion, dominance on the employee’s behavior, and properties.
The paper will deal with two aspects of the privacy-vs-security issue. The first one is concerned with general civil liberties, where privacy is understood to mean freedom to make personal (private) choices in our own homes, control our daily lives and decide with whom we share information that is of our concern – information about our emotions, attitudes, behavior and future decisions and events. The second aspect deals with the privacy vs. security on the internet. Since we live in a technological era, internet has become an inseparable part of our l...
Parliamentary Counsel Office. (2009). New Zealand Legislation Acts. Privacy Act 1993. Retrieved March 18, 2010 from: http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0028/latest/DLM296639.html
encourages the healthcare team to take precautions to ensure that only authorized access occurs. In spite of the precautions; there are still circumstances that challenge the scope of information subject to confidentiality.
One basic principle is that, people should be informed about that their information is collected and for what purpose their information will be used and also should provide space for them to approve such use of information.