Privacy Awareness Week NSW 2025
Privacy Awareness Week
NSW 2025
Privacy - it's everyone's business!
16 - 22 June 2025
About Privacy Awareness Week
Privacy Awareness Week will take place from 16 – 22 June 2025.
Privacy Awareness Week is a global campaign that highlights the importance of privacy and raises awareness for public sector agencies about how to protect the personal information of our citizens. Each year, the IPC hosts a campaign for NSW citizens and public sector agencies to raise awareness of privacy rights and obligations.
This year’s theme is “Privacy: It's everyone's business” and focuses on reminding all of us that privacy is a shared responsibility whether you are a member of the public or a NSW public sector employee.
Commissioner welcome
I am delighted to welcome you to this year's Privacy Awareness Week NSW campaign.
Privacy is everyone's business, and protecting personal information is a shared responsibility. Both individuals and organisations must stay informed and take proactive measures to safeguard data. By working together, we create a safer and more secure environment for everyone.
As individuals, it's essential to be aware of what information we share online, protect ourselves by using strong passwords and multi-factor authentication, and regularly review our privacy settings. NSW public sector agencies must ensure compliance with privacy laws, implement effective data protection measures, and foster a culture of privacy awareness within their agency. Together, we can build trust and maintain the security of personal information.
This Privacy Awareness Week, I encourage you to get involved and share the week's important message Privacy it's everyone's business. You can also get involved in events and engage your network to further promote privacy.
I look forward to celebrating the right to protect personal information and privacy with you during Privacy Awareness Week NSW 2025.
Sonia Minutillo
NSW Privacy Commissioner
What's on
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NSW Privacy Awareness Week Event 2025 - Everyone's Privacy in the World of AIDate: Tuesday 17 June 2025 |
Speakers:
- Sonia Minutillo, NSW Privacy Commissioner
- Katharine Kemp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales
- Sam Mackay, Chief Information Security Officer, Department of Customer Service Cyber & Information Security Office.
About the event: As the rapid rise in technologies such as AI continues around us all, it brings both new opportunities and significant challenges for how our personal data is collected, used and safeguarded. Join us this Privacy Awareness Week 2025 for a discussion on the evolving relationship between AI and privacy. Hear from our keynote speaker, Associate Professor Katharine Kemp, from the University of New South Wales as well as Department of Customer Service Chief Information Security Officer, Sam Mackay for a thought-provoking address and conversation about AI innovation and privacy.
Additionally, NSW Privacy Commissioner Sonia Minutillo will discuss the overarching theme of PAW 2025 and the importance of making privacy everyone’s business in the world of AI.
This event is open to NSW public sector agencies, including those within local government, universities, state-owned corporations and ministerial offices.
2025 Champion Program
This year we will again be running the Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) Champion Program. NSW public sector agencies can join as Champions to help spread the PAW message as well as encourage their agency and work colleagues to get involved and promote privacy rights.
Champions of the Program will receive a pack full of digital and printable resources, as well as written content such as newsletter articles, blog posts, social media posts and more to make promoting the campaign easy.
You can register your agency as a PAW NSW 2025 Champion using this webform. Agencies will also be acknowledged as a Champion here on the PAW NSW webpage and via the IPC's social media where possible.
