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On 1 November 2010 the Office of the Privacy Commissioner was integrated into the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). An interim website for the OAIC is available at www.oaic.gov.au. This site (privacy.gov.au), which only contains information related to the OAIC's privacy function, will be maintained until a combined site is established.
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I`m worried about security once my ID is scanned. What obligations do businesses have?

Businesses have to:

  • keep personal information, such as your scanned ID, securely
  • destroy or permanently de-identify information when it is no longer necessary for the purpose it was collected for.

This answer is a summary only.

For more details, see our ID scanning information sheets:

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