Governance body a welcome move to protect vulnerable data

On 4 October it was announced that former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chair, Graeme Samuel would head the newly established Data Governance Australia, an independent body tasked with establishing industry standards for the use, collection and application of data.

Just 24-hours later, a large-scale data breach was reported to have taken place, exposing the personal information of 96,000 Australia public servants.

The incident follows last week’s potentially “devastating” Medicare data breach by the health department.

In July, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner told Guardian Australia it had, since 2013, received 14 data breach notifications with regard to personal information held by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

David Jones, K-Mart, Queensland TAFE and Aussie Farmers Direct are among those that have been vulnerable to attacks over the past year.

As a leading Australian marketing automation platform, data integrity, storage and security are the cornerstones of Swift Digital’s business. We are unwavering in our commitment to data best practice.

Swift Digital commends the creation of Data Governance Australia, and welcomes and supports all moves to establish and promote data benchmarks and the responsible use of data.

Swift Digital congratulates the below 12 individuals on their appointment as founding board members of Data Governance Australia:

Ben Ashton, Group Executive, Quantium
Warren Billington, Managing Director, Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia, Signal
Thomas Dobson, Head of Marketing Planning and Performance, NAB
Leif Evensen, General Manager Business Performance and Analytics, Westpac
David Lamond, Director, Scentre Group
Lionel Lopez, Chief Data Officer, Veda
Ingrid Maes, Director Loyalty and Customer Data at Woolworths
Paul McCarney, Co-founder and CEO, Data Republic
Michelle Pinhiero, Director of Intellectual Property and Data Management IAG
David Rohan, General Manager of Loyalty Analytics, Qantas Loyalty
Gavin Smith, TMT Sector Head, Allens
Adam Story, General Manager, Flybuys, Loyalty and CRM, Coles.

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