Sensitive Data Protection
What is Sensitive Data?
All information that reveals personal information about an individual such as address, name and contact details is considered sensitive. Also information about a business like figures and other details is considered sensitive data.
Why Is important to Protect Sensitive Information
Printed information and digital data can be use to impersonate an individual and commit crimes, that is why all sensitive information must be protected.
The new regime will increase the maximum penalties for misuse of personal information by entities covered by the Privacy Act, from $2.1 million for serious or repeated breaches to the greatest of:
$10 million
three times the value of any benefit obtained through the misuse of information
10% of a company’s annual domestic turnover.
$10 million
three times the value of any benefit obtained through the misuse of information
10% of a company’s annual domestic turnover.
How to protect sensitive data
When documents and digital information are available for use, the information’s owner must control the access to that information, that is known as Authorized level.
Any activity such as edition must be done with the right authorization, and the records must be safe all the time.
When is time to dispose the information or a device(for digital information) the securely destruction of the records must be guaranteed.
The Follow Privacy & Confidentiality act covers all small business that works trading Personal Data, handle personal information, or is in under the Privacy Regulation 2013.
As a Consequence The Privacy Act must be followed by any business in the next categories:
- Health Services
- commercialize personal information
- any contractor under a Commonwealth contract
- an operator of a residential tenancy database
- a credit reporting body or credit provider
- employee unions registered or recognized under the Fair Work
- protection action ballots
- a business prescribed by the Privacy Regulation 2013
Our Guarantees
Secure Transit
Secure Destruction Process
Certificate of Destruction is Provided at not cost
Secura Bags provides a confidential shredding services and secure document shredding for ALL types of documents, with the highest standard national wide. Old documents can be a waste of space and a high risk as they contain sensitive information related to your business. Secura Bags provides a unique service, removing the danger of losing sensitive information through our easy and fast service.
- All drivers are police checked Australia Wide
- Records are transported in totally enclosed and lockable vehicles
- All Vehicles are tracked by GPS all the time
- Cross Axis Shredding is done once the documents arrive
- shredded paper is recycled.
