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Recent News, Publications, and Presentations
In the past 12 months IIS has produced a number of publications, assessments and papers for clients on a range of topics.
2025
February 18 - IIS Founder & Partner Malcolm Crompton has been selected to join the Independent Advisory Board to offer additional guidance to the Minister for Government Services on ways to deliver citizen-centred government services.
2024
December 3 - The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has announced the publication of the independent findings of the 2026 Census Phase 2 PIA conducted by IIS Partners, along with its response.
November 19 - Chong Shao participated in a webinar with Surf Life Saving NSW to discuss the use of privacy enhancing technology to reduce the risk of unstructured data held by organisations.
May - Mike Trovato, Simon Liu and Nicole Stephensen have prepared a white paper on ‘The Five Safes Framework: Putting Principles into Practice’. The paper delves into the objective of the framework from a data privacy and security lens, as well as introducing a ‘Sixth Safe’ that captures the wider principles of the existing five.
May - Nicole Stephensen and Natasha Roberts have prepared a white paper on ‘Using PETs to power up your privacy’. In support of Privacy Awareness Week and its ‘Power up your privacy’ theme, Nicole and Natasha explore how Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) can be used to enhance the privacy posture of organisations, with contributions from a panel of experts at the intersection of privacy, cybersecurity, technology policy, law and social licence.
March 29 - Nicole Stephensen was interviewed by The New Daily as part of their reporting on the Australian Government’s Digital ID Bill. In particular, she raised concerns around access to the system by law enforcement and national security agencies, and the importance of adequate regulator funding so that it can provide meaningful oversight.
March 28 - Mike Trovato, Malcolm Crompton, Nicole Stephensen and Natasha Roberts have made an online submission to the Attorney-General’s Department regarding its public consultation on Doxxing and Privacy Reforms.
March 1 - Mike Trovato and Natasha Roberts have made a submission to the Department of Home Affairs regarding the 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy Legislative Reforms Consultation Paper.
February 22 - Malcolm Crompton was interviewed by Channel 9’s A Current Affair program on the Australian Government’s plans to introduce a voluntary digital ID for all Australians.
February 15 - The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has announced the publication of the independent findings of the 2026 Census Phase 1 PIA conducted by IIS Partners, along with its response.
January 23 - Malcolm Crompton, Mike Trovato and Natasha Roberts have made a submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Economics on the Digital ID Bill that has been referred to the Senate Economics Legislation Committee.
January - Mike Trovato and Simon Liu have prepared a white paper on ‘The delicate balance between national security and privacy’. They delve into the OAIC’s ‘4A framework’, which was developed to provide guidance on how law enforcement and national security authorities can assess and deploy their powers to protect Australians, while respecting our privacy.
