The Australian Privacy Principles (or APPs) are the cornerstone of the privacy protection framework in the Privacy Act 1988. They apply to any organisation or agency the Privacy Act covers.

Read the Australian Privacy Principles. Legal copy describing each Australian Privacy Principle

1 Australian Privacy Principle 1 — open and transparent management of personal information 1.1 The object of this principle is to ensure that APP entities manage personal information in an …

The Australian Privacy Principles (APP) guidelines outline the mandatory requirements of the APPs, how we’ll interpret the APPs, and matters we may take into account when exercising our functions and powers under the Privacy Act 1988.

The Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) replaced the National Privacy Principles and Information Privacy Principles on 12 March 2014 . This is the text of the 13 APPs from Schedule 1 of the Privacy Amendment

The Australian Privacy Principles guidelines (APP guidelines) outline: • the mandatory requirements in the APPs, which are set out in Schedule 1 of the Privacy Act • the Information …

The Privacy Act includes 13 Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), which apply to some private sector organisations, as well as most Australian Government agencies. Such organisations …

Under s 8(1) of the Privacy Act, an APP entity needs to take reasonable steps to ensure that an employee does not gain unauthorised access to personal information ‘in the performance of the duties of the person’s employment’.

Generally, sensitive information has a higher level of privacy protection than other personal information. For more information about personal information, see Australian Privacy Principles Guidelines, Chapter B.

Therefore, this distinction is not relevant in interpreting this principle (except in relation to APP 6.3). However, the distinction is relevant to APP 8, which applies to the disclosure of personal information to an overseas recipient (see Chapter 8 (APP 8)).