Privacy Commissioner, Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner, Australia
| T | imothy Pilgrim was appointed as Privacy Commissioner on 19 July 2010. He was first appointed to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner as Deputy |
Privacy Commissioner in February 1998. Prior to this he held senior management positions in a range of Australian Government agencies, including the Small Business Program within the Australian Taxation Office and the Child Support Agency. Timothy has made a significant contribution to the field of privacy in Australia. His achievements include involvement in developing the private sector provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), which included widespread consultation with community, business and government organizations. He also played a key role in implementing the private sector provisions, which took effect on 21 December 2001. More recently, Timothy has participated in the Australian Law Reform Commission inquiry into Australian privacy laws and practice, and continues to work on privacy law reform. Mr Pilgrim holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Sydney University.
Recent high profile data breaches have highlighted the importance of ensuring that mechanisms for privacy and data protection endure for the entire life cycle of technologies. At the same time, community attitudes to privacy are changing as new technologies allow personal information to be shared with others for multiple purposes. In this context, Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim will discuss PbD and how it can apply in both the public and private sectors. Timothy will outline how PbD principles can apply not only to technologies developed by the private sector, but also to new public policy developments, such as electronic health records. Australian privacy law reform and the role of Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) will also be discussed.
