Making privacy everyone’s business
While privacy professionals live and breathe privacy, it can be difficult to encourage and develop a level of privacy ownership across your organisation. How do you get your colleagues to care about privacy?
Privacy Awareness Week 2025
‘Privacy – it’s everyone’s business’ is the theme of this year’s Privacy Awareness Week.
While induction, onboarding and regular training are crucial, they can often be viewed by staff as a tick box exercise. While staff should be aware of legislative reform and regulatory obligations, compliance alone will not support your colleagues to assess current practices in their area or understand the need for change.
Staff need to understand the value of their role within the broader privacy ecosystem. If they are frontline staff, do they understand how their data entry or data management practices could impact customer privacy? Can they identify privacy risks in their area and know how to ask a question or raise an issue?
Protecting personal data and information
People care deeply about how their personal information is used and protected—and rightly so. No one wants their data exposed in a breach or misused without consent or exposed in a data breach. That’s why it’s important to help your colleagues make the connection between their own expectations of privacy and the responsibility we all share in protecting information at work.
Personal information—no matter who it belongs to—is a valuable asset. It must be managed and protected responsibly to build trust between staff, an organisation, and its customers.
Evinact can help your organisation:
- Assess organisational data literacy levels and develop tailored, practical development programs to uplift privacy skills and capability
- Prepare for upcoming federal and state legislative reform
- Complete privacy audits to understand compliance obligations
- Conduct privacy maturity assessments
- Complete privacy threshold and/or impact assessments for projects or initiatives involving personal information.
Privacy Awareness Week runs from Monday 16 June to Sunday 22 June 2025 and is the ideal time to consider your organisation’s privacy practices and how to develop a culture where privacy really is everyone’s business.
Contact Jane Brimacombe to learn more about how Evinact can support your organisation on its privacy journey.
