https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/the-privacy-act

Covers it pretty well.

On Tue, 27 Sept 2022 at 16:36, James Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know which laws cover the data they were keeping?
>
> Did a search for anything with "telecommunication" in the name (link), found 
> 71 results and downloaded 73 PDF files (C2022C00170 Telecommunications Act 
> 1997 had 3 files, all others had 1 file), and can't find anything that 
> mentions keeping this level of data.
>
> The closest thing I found was in the following:
>
> C2022C00151 - Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979
> C2015A00039 - Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data 
> Retention) Act 2015
> C2021A00078 - Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (International 
> Production Orders) Act 2021
>
> which contained the following two sections that seem to cover identification 
> information - there doesn't seem to be anything that says they need to 
> collect or store to the level that Optus seems to have done.. Almost reads 
> like you could store name and address (without DOB?) and that would be 
> adequate enough (but I'm not a lawyer so who knows).. Am I looking in the 
> wrong place/at the wrong laws?
>
> 13 Identification of a particular person
> For the purposes of this Schedule, a particular person may be identified:
> (a) by the person’s full name; or
> (b) by a name by which the person is commonly known; or
> (c) as the person to whom a particular individual transmission service is 
> supplied; or
> (d) as the person to whom a particular individual message/call application 
> service is provided; or
> (e) as the person who has a particular account with a prescribed 
> communications provider; or
> (f) as the person who has a particular telephone number; or
> (g) as the person who has a particular email address; or
> (h) as the person who has a particular internet protocol address; or
> (i) as the person who has a device that has a particular unique identifier 
> (for example, an electronic serial number or a Media Access Control address); 
> or
> (j) by any other unique identifying factor that is applicable to the person.
>
>
> and
>
> 187AA Information to be kept
> (1) The following table sets out the kinds of information that a service 
> provider must keep, or cause to be kept, under subsection 187A(1):
> Item
>
> 1
>
> Topic
>
> The subscriber of, and accounts, services, telecommunications devices and 
> other relevant services relating to, the relevant service
>
> Description of information
>
> The following:
>
> (a) any information that is one or both of the following:
>
> (i) any name or address information;
>
> (ii) any other information for identification purposes;
>
> relating to the relevant service, being information used by the service 
> provider for the purposes of identifying the subscriber of the relevant 
> service;
>
> (b) any information relating to any contract, agreement or arrangement 
> relating to the relevant service, or to any related account, service or 
> device;
>
> (c) any information that is one or both of the following:
>
> (i) billing or payment information;
>
> (ii) contact information;
>
> relating to the relevant service, being information used by the service 
> provider in relation to the relevant service;
>
> (d) any identifiers relating to the relevant service or any related account, 
> service or device, being information used by the service provider in relation 
> to the relevant service or any related account, service or device;
>
> (e) he status of the relevant service, or any related account, service or 
> device.
>
>
>
> On 27 Sep 2022, at 11:12, Nathan Brookfield 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> They’re legally obligated to retain it but why it’s on the API and why it’s 
> not encrypted.
>
> Looking at the data some fields are hashed and then repeated in the bloody 
> clear :(
>
> On 27 Sep 2022, at 11:02, [email protected] wrote:
>
> My understanding was that the data included the 100 points of ID info. Why 
> are they retaining this? Surely after confirming the 100 points there only 
> needs to be a record "100 points provided"=true and not retain the actual 
> details. This goes back to only keeping the private data you need.
>
> regards,
> Glenn
>
> On 2022-09-27 10:49, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
>
> Personally, I find putting Authentication on my API endpoints to be a
> FANTASTIC first step towards API security.  And then not even using
> public IP addresses in test environments is a pretty good second
> step..  </onlyhalfsarcasticherewhydoesthiskeephappening>
> On Tue, 27 Sept 2022 at 10:46, Bevan Slattery <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> Obviously a big week in telco and cybersecurity.  As part of my work
> I am on the Australian Cyber Security Industry Advisory Committee as
> an industry representative.
> I am keen to look at opening up a dialogue with more and more telco,
> DC and Cloud CISO’s on what they are doing around this issue and
> looking to take a proactive step towards best practice on customer
> data and system security.
> There will be some pretty serious consequences of this hack on the
> industry and importantly we need to make sure we are as best placed
> to help each other continually increase in security posture through
> best practice, but also working with each other as an industry.
> Are people keen on having a online/VC session sometime in the next
> few weeks where like-minded industry participants get together and
> discuss security, retention, encryption, threat detection etc.?  If
> so, just ping me directly and if there is enough interest I will
> send out an invitation to the list for a call.
> Cheers
> [b]
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