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Privacy Awareness Week 2025 – sign up now!
This year’s Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) campaign made a call to ‘power up’ on privacy. We are focussed on three key principles: transparency, accountability and security.
Our PAW website provides a range of practical advice for individuals, businesses and government agencies on protecting privacy. You can get involved by signing up your organisation and coming along to PAW events. Find out more below - and sign up now for PAW 2025.
PAW Resources
The best way to access the full range of Privacy Awareness Week resources is to sign up your organisation as a supporter and receive our full toolkit. Supporter organisations also have the option to be listed here on the PAW website.
Otherwise, you can still show your PAW pride by using some of the Privacy Awareness Week resources available at the links.
Sign up your organisation
Privacy Awareness Week (PAW) is an annual event to promote and raise awareness of the importance of protecting personal information. It is led by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) in partnership with state and territory privacy regulators and the Asia Pacific Privacy Authorities members.
Signing your organisation up as a PAW supporter is a non-financial commitment to promoting good privacy practices and advancing the privacy rights of individuals. Inclusion on the PAW website is optional.
Thank you to all the organisations and agencies that signed up for PAW 2024. To sign up for PAW 2025, use the link below.
Events for Privacy Awareness Week
Privacy by Design Awards
This event has now been held
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind will join other speakers at the Privacy by Design Awards hosted by CyberCX and the Tech Council of Australia.
IAPP Privacy Awareness Week launch
This event has now been held
The International Association of Privacy Professionals will be kicking off this Privacy Awareness Week with a KnowledgeNet session in Sydney: How to Power up a Privacy Program for Emerging and Evolving Technologies. It will include a keynote from Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind, and panel session.
OVIC PAW launch
This event has now been held
OVIC is commencing its PAW celebrations with an in-person launch event held at Parliament House.
Victoria’s new Information Commissioner, Sean Morrison, will address attendees and be joined by a special guest speaker (to be announced).
Morning tea will follow the formalities. This event will not be live-streamed, but will be recorded and published on OVIC’s Vimeo channel following the event.
Our supporters
Leading Australian organisations support and participate in Privacy Awareness Week.
Signing up as a supporter is a great way for organisations to show their commitment to good privacy practices and the importance ofprotecting personal information.
If your organisation is not in a position to sign up, there are still a variety of ways you can get involved, such as by attending Privacy Awareness Week events, sharing the tips and quizzes, and using some of the materials we have created for the event in your workplace
