Privacy and Legal Compliance Policies and Standards
Policies and standards relating to privacy and legal compliance issues with government websites.
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Legal Compliance Standard
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Victorian Government departments and agencies will ensure that website content, services and processes are aligned with departmental/agency and government legal compliance practices, to protect the rights and interests of citizens and manage operational risks.
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Managing Legal Risks Online: A Guide for Victorian Government Web sites
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This Whole of Victorian Government (WoVG) guideline is designed to assist those who have responsibility for designing, developing and operating Victorian Government websites to manage the relevant legal and regulatory issues. The focus is on the delivery of websites by the public sector. It is intended to deal with practical issues, to describe and explain the legal and regulatory terrain and frameworks, and to set out the techniques that should be used to address and manage concerns.
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Privacy Standard
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The Privacy Standard provides direction to Victorian Government Departments and Agencies to ensure that website content, services and processses conform to Victorian privacy legislation and principles.
- Guidelines to the Information Privacy Principles - in pdf format (1137kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Office of the Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Edition 3 – November 2011. "... These Guidelines are intended for people working with the Information Privacy Principles
(IPPs) in the Victorian Information Privacy Act 2000 (Information Privacy Act). The IPPs are relevant for all Victorian public sector employees, including those from Victorian government departments, local councils, statutory offices, government schools, universities and TAFEs. They can also be relevant for employees of private or community sector organisations, where those organisations are carrying out functions under a state contract with a Victorian public sector organisation..."
This category last updated: 21 November 2011