This year’s NSW Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) 2025 focused on privacy being a shared responsibility between individuals and organisations where everyone has an important role to play in contributing to a safer community.
Privacy Awareness Week 2025 activities
Privacy Awareness Week NSW 2025 Event: Everyone’s Privacy in the World of AI
As part of Privacy Awareness Week NSW 2025, the IPC held an event on 17 June 2025. The event discussed the evolving relationship between AI and privacy, with a key focus on AI use within NSW public sector agencies.
The NSW Privacy Commissioner, Sonia Minutillo, along with guest speakers, Dr Katharine Kemp, UNSW and Sam Mackay, DCS presented valuable insights about AI innovation and privacy.
Katharine's presentation focused on AI in its evolving landscape and its broader intersection with human rights, while Sam's presentation offered an understanding about the opportunities and challenges the use of AI presents for cyber breach incidents, cyber management and response.
PAW 2025 Resources
The IPC released new resources this Privacy Awareness Week:
- 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.
PAW 2025 Champion Program
This year a total of 119 agencies joined the PAW Champion Program to support Privacy Awareness Week. The IPC would like to thank Champions for helping spread awareness of citizens’ privacy rights and agencies’ responsibilities under NSW privacy legislation.
Although NSW Privacy Awareness Week 2025 has ended, the importance of privacy being everyone’s business continues all year round.
It’s important to make sure your information is protected by keeping your personal information secure, regularly reviewing your privacy settings online and reporting any privacy breaches to the relevant NSW agency.
Continuous learning and staying on top of the latest privacy recommendations are key to effective privacy protection 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.
