Aussie Gov't Drafting Privacy Law in Wake of PSN Breach

Australia wants online seclusion laws to be beefed up in light of the attack that broke into Sony's PlayStation Network.

By now, nigh people lay the blame for the information-excavation PSN flack appropriately at the feet of the citizenry who broke into the network, but Sony hasn't at large blame, either. One of the nigh common criticisms levied against the electronics elephantine is that it waited also long to inform consumers that their data might have been compromised, though Sony swears IT told everybody A soon as it knew.

While politicians and political groups from around the worldly concern like US Senator Richard Blumenthal, the Privacy Commission of Canada and the U.K. Information Commissioner have all lambasted Sony for its role (or deficiency thereof) in the event, it's the island nation/continent of Australia that may be actually doing something about IT.

According to WA Today, the Australian government has announced plans to introduce statute law that will force companies like Sony to announce security measur breaches and the theft of personal entropy forthwith. Of the millions and millions of PSN users worldwide whose information is now compromised, says the article, 1,560,791 of them were Australian and 280,000 had charge card details attached to their accounts.

Privacy Minister Brendan O'Connor aforesaid that he was "very concerned" about the potential theft of personal information, and disappointed that it had taken Sony "several days" to give notice its customers of the breach. As such, he aforementioned, a mandatory notification practice of law now appeared to Be necessary.

That same, he didn't enjoin that this was Sony's problem and Sony's solitary. "Sony isn't alone. We've seen serious privacy-affine incidents in recent months involving some other large companies," said O'Connor, apparently referring to incidents involving companies like Dingle Commonwealth of Australi and Telstra. "All companies that collect customers' personal info mustiness ensure that the information is safe and secure from misuse."

The Australian government has been investigation the incident, said Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim, who said that he was ready and waiting to get wind answers from a series of questions he'd conveyed Sony. (No offense, Mr. Pilgrim, but I think Sony is a bit busy right instantly).

David Valle, the executive director director for theCyberspace Law and Insurance Center on at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, called the breach a "chilling example" of what could hap when companies stored so much information in a central database, no matter to how much security they turn in the lock.

"The protectors induce to be 100 percent perfect in their defense team, while the attackers only need to find one tiny chink to get through and through."

(Via GamePolitics)

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