Privacy Awareness Week 6 - 12 May 2024

Published 1st May, 2024

Privacy Awareness Week is an annual event that seeks to highlight the importance of safeguarding personal information and facilitates the negotiation of the privacy landscape by public sector organisations and the general public.

The OIC will mark Privacy Awareness Week 2024 from Monday 6 May to Sunday 12 May.

The chosen theme for Privacy Awareness Week 2024 is "power up your privacy". This theme sits under the overarching theme of Privacy and technology: Improving transparency, accountability and security.

For statements on this year's theme visit the below links:

To celebrate Privacy Awareness Week 2024, below is a list of events being held that you can join in remotely:

https://ovic.vic.gov.au/all-events/panel-discussion-privacy-and-technology-improving-transparency-accountability-and-security/

Lightning Talk – Reasonable Steps: What are they, and when should you take them? – Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (ovic.vic.gov.au)

Panel Discussion – Privacy and Technology: Improving Transparency, Accountability and Security – Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (ovic.vic.gov.au)

Lightning Talk – Being Privacy Conscious when Outsourcing IT Services – Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (ovic.vic.gov.au)

We encourage you to promote PAW within your agencies this year, and provide the resources below to help:

PAW 2024 Email Signature

PAW 2024 Poster A3_1

PAW 2024 Poster A3_2

PAW 2024 Poster A3_3

PAW 2024 Tips for Individuals

PAW 2024 Tips for Government

PAW 2024 Tips for Businesses

Additional information about Privacy Awareness Week 2024 is available at paw.gov.au.