{"id":284406,"date":"2026-07-01T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/australian-community-privacy-survey-shows-businesses-where-opportunities-lie\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:45:10","slug":"australian-community-privacy-survey-shows-businesses-where-opportunities-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/australian-community-privacy-survey-shows-businesses-where-opportunities-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian community privacy survey shows businesses where opportunities lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinsentmasons.com\/out-law\/analysis\/australian-community-privacy-survey\">Australian community privacy survey shows businesses where opportunities lie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinsentmasons.com\/out-law\/analysis\/australian-community-privacy-survey\">https:\/\/www.pinsentmasons.com\/out-law\/analysis\/australian-community-privacy-survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-01 07:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pinsentmasons.com\">www.pinsentmasons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For businesses, the latest Australian community attitudes to privacy survey (ACAPS), which, every three years, tracks Australians&#8217; attitudes to privacy, experiences of privacy risks and misuse of personal information, and expectations of organisations and government, provides an insight into where concerns lie and where there are advantages to be derived if they can address them. <\/p>\n<p>Below, we review the survey\u2019s main findings against core APP obligations and consider how these community expectations can inform a compliance approach that enhances opportunity and future proofs risk.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"without-keyline\">What ACAPS 2026 reveals about community attitudes\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Almost nine in 10 Australians (87%) say they are more concerned about their privacy than they were five years ago.\u00a0Yet that growing concern is not matched\u00a0by a corresponding sense of\u00a0control. Only 20% report feeling in control of their personal information, down from 32% in 2023, and just a quarter believe that most organisations are transparent about how personal information is used, itself a striking fall from 42% in 2023.\u00a0Overall, the\u00a0biggest privacy\u00a0risk concerns\u00a0identified by Australians\u00a0in ACAPS 2026\u00a0include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>data breaches (82%, up from 74% in 2023);\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>organisations not storing personal information\u00a0securely (77%, up from 60% in 2023);\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>scammers\u00a0attempting\u00a0to access personal information\u00a0(75%, up from 71% in 2023);\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>organisations sending information overseas (70%, up\u00a0from 50% in 2023); and\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>concern about AI systems using personal information\u00a0(69%, up from 43% in 2023).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What this\u00a0tells us, in short, is that Australians are increasingly aware of privacy risks, and increasingly resigned to being unable to do much about them.\u00a0The gap between what Australians expect of organisations\u00a0and what they\u00a0actually experience\u00a0is widening.\u00a0For organisations,\u00a0these\u00a0shifting community attitudes are increasingly consequential, shaping not only\u00a0the reputational risk\u00a0of\u00a0maintaining\u00a0trust\u00a0but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinsentmasons.com\/out-law\/analysis\/australian-community-privacy-survey\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian community privacy survey shows businesses where opportunities lie https:\/\/www.pinsentmasons.com\/out-law\/analysis\/australian-community-privacy-survey Publish Date: 2026-07-01 07:26:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pinsentmasons.com\/-\/media\/images\/seo-social-media\/editorial-use-only\/digital-data-cyber\/man-on-street-mobile-browsing_digital---seosocialeditorial-image.jpg?rev=1115d651989d4b639cccb2b87e9d1f03","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284408,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284406\/revisions\/284408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}