The Queensland government is considering forcing agencies to report data breaches to affected individuals and the state’s privacy commissioner as part of proposed privacy and right to information reforms. The Department of Justice and Attorney-General on Friday released a consultation paper calling for feedback.
Westpac’s BT is modernising its Panorama financial planning platform by migrating it to run in the cloud, which should also make the platform easier to separate from the group. Westpac reveals challenges of ring-fencing large IT assets and unwinding tight system integrations to prepare those assets for life outside of the Westpac Group.
Here’s a straw in the wind: Acquia has added a self-service interface to process data deletion requests submitted by consumers under privacy regulations. It’s one more example of CDPs providing privacy-related services. Separately, Acquia announced a Workato integration, which will enable connections through Workato to hundreds of third-party cloud services.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.