NSW Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) takes place from 16 – 22 June this year. The theme for 2025 is Privacy – it’s everyone’s business and focuses on privacy being a shared responsibility where everyone has a role to play. By working together, the protection and security of personal information can be maintained.
PAW involves both public sector agencies and citizens and aims to highlight the importance of protecting personal information by improving understanding and awareness of NSW privacy legislation, and to emphasise a person’s privacy rights and agency obligations and responsibilities.
Watch below a welcome to Privacy Awareness Week from the NSW Privacy Commissioner, Sonia Minutillo:
Event
Privacy Awareness Week NSW 2025 Event – Everyone’s Privacy in the World of AI
Data: Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Time: 9:30am – 10:30am (9:00am registrations and morning tea)
Location: Online and in-person
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.
This Privacy Awareness Week event will focus on the evolving relationship between AI and privacy. In their presentations, keynote speakers, Associate Professor Dr Katharine Kemp, from the University of New South Wales as well as Department of Customer Service Chief Information Security Officer, Sam Mackay, will provide a thought-provoking address and insight 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.
Resources:
For NSW Privacy Awareness Week 2025, the IPC has is releasing the following new guidance:
- For agencies: Updated MNDB Self-assessment Tool
- The IPC has updated its MNDB Self-assessment Tool designed to assist NSW public sector agencies to determine whether a data breach is an eligible data breach under the Mandatory Notification of Data Breach (MNDB) Scheme.
- For the public: You have been told your information has been breached
- The IPC has developed new supporting guidance for citizens and for agencies to supply alongside their notifications to individuals affected by a data breach.
Additional to these new resources, the IPC is also highlighting the following resources during NSW Privacy Awareness Week 2025:
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 protect personal information. By working together, we create a safer and more secure environment for everyone.
The IPC can help you understand privacy laws in NSW and give you information on how to protect your personal information and access your rights. Learn more in our privacy resources for citizens.
You can also learn more about what’s on this Privacy Awareness Week here.
