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Privacy Commissioner hands down award compensating for non-economic loss

The Australian Privacy Commission made an award compensating individuals for non-economic loss for a privacy law breach.  This was a first in Australia.

See https://www.oaic.gov.au/assets/privacy/privacy-decisions/privacy-determinations/WP-and-Secretary-to-the-Department-of-Home-Affairs-Privacy-2021-AICmr-2-11-January-2021.pdf and  https://www.kwm.com/en/au/knowledge/insights/privacy-commissioner-hands-down-first-representative-award-20210203

The decision requires the Department of Home Affairs to compensate over 1,200 asylum seekers for inadvertently publishing their personal information online in 2014.  

It is somewhat amazing that this case took seven years to reach this stage.

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