This document is a summary of the 2023 Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA). It has some of the information and recommendations from the PIA.

Recommendations are ideas on how to fix or make things better.

We worked with a company called Maddocks to do a PIA. Maddocks are not part of the government. They are a business that is very good at helping to make or keep data private.

The PIA looked at the data asset and how the Australian National Data Integration Infrastructure supports it to work.

In this document we will call the Australian National Data Integration Infrastructure the ‘computer system’.

The computer system lets us look at the data and link information that is the same or similar.

The PIA was done to make sure that:

• the data asset and computer system follow the Privacy Act 1988
• we think about any dangers or risks to privacy
• we think about ways to work on the risks to privacy
• community are okay with the way information is used.

We worked with Maddocks to do some focus groups for the PIA in 2023.

More than 150 people were part of the focus groups. A focus group is a way for people to have a say about what they think.

Maddocks did a report on the focus groups.

A report is a written document to say what was learned.

An update to the PIA will be done in 2025.