Enhancing the Privacy Act
The Government has changed the Privacy Act 2020 (the Act) to improve transparency about the collection of personal information and to better enable people to exercise their privacy rights. The Privacy Amendment Act 2025 introduces a new information privacy principle 3A (IPP 3A) relating to indirect collection of personal information. Under the new IPP 3A, an agency that collects personal information from a source other than the individual themselves must take reasonable steps to ensure that the