"Changes have been underway since July, when dedicated funding for social media and data breach complaints and enforcement ended, despite rising privacy issues and breaches worsening in scale and complexity.
"The budget cuts, together totalling more than $11 million, were detailed for the first time at a Senate Estimates hearing on Wednesday night.
"The cuts brought down the agency’s annual staffing level from 202 last financial year to around 165 this year and ended some dedicated programs to uplift compliance and enforcement."
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Paywalled, sorry
https://www.innovationaus.com/oaic-slashes-staff-to-meet-11m-budget-crunch/
"The budget cuts, together totalling more than $11 million, were detailed for the first time at a Senate Estimates hearing on Wednesday night.
"The cuts brought down the agency’s annual staffing level from 202 last financial year to around 165 this year and ended some dedicated programs to uplift compliance and enforcement."
#AusPol
Paywalled, sorry
https://www.innovationaus.com/oaic-slashes-staff-to-meet-11m-budget-crunch/
OAIC slashes staff to meet $11m budget crunch
The privacy and information watchdog has slashed dozens of staff in response to a 23 per cent budget cut by government and a review by management consultants, sparking fears it will be ill equipped to deal with key policy changes like the social medi…Joseph Brookes (InnovationAus.com)
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