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Privacy Impact Assessment Register

ASIC has prepared the following Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Register in accordance with section 15 of the Australian Government Agencies Privacy Code (the Privacy Code). Under the Privacy Code, all agencies, including ASIC, must conduct a PIA for all projects that significantly impact the way they handle personal information.

The PIA Register below sets out the PIAs ASIC has completed since 1 July 2018. The PIA register will be updated from time to time as new PIAs are completed.

 

Title of PIA

Project description

Date completed

Enforcement and Compliance use of AWS Translate

Privacy Impact Assessment for Enforcement & Compliance about the use of Amazon Translate.

1 August 2025

Digital Asset Tracing

Privacy Impact Assessment about the use of Digital Asset Tracing.

28 July 2025

Markets use of AWS Transcribe

Privacy Impact Assessment about the use of AWS Transcribe by Market Integrity.

12 June 2025

RegistryConnect - Telephony

Privacy Impact Assessment for the Registry Connect telephony solution.

6 May 2025

Letters to E&C

Privacy Impact Assessment for about an Enforcement and Compliance internal culture project.

20 February 2025

Regulation and Supervision use of AWS Transcribe

Privacy Impact Assessment about the use of AWS Transcribe.

14 November 2024

Machinery of government changes for the return of Registry to ASIC

Privacy Impact Assessment about Machinery of Government changes.

5 November 2024

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for Regulatory Portal

Privacy Impact Assessment about implementing multi-factor authentication for the Regulatory Portal.

23 August 2024

Foundational PIA for use of Artificial
Intelligence and Large Language Models

Privacy Impact Assessment for CDAO sandbox testing environment for LLMs.

22 August 2024

External Printing Services 2024

Privacy Impact Assessment about Registry Operations external printing services.

14 August 2024

Lite Review

Privacy impact Assessment about using natural language processing.

27 June 2024

Source Acquisition - Ingest AFSA data via API feed

Privacy Impact Assessment about ingesting Australian Financial Security Authority data via API feed.

17 June 2024

Updating the Report of Misconduct Form

Privacy Impact Assessment about updating the Report of Misconduct form.

26 February 2024

Sine Visitor Management System

Implementation of an Electronic Visitor and Contract Management System for visitors and contractors to use to sign in when entering ASIC sites. Specifically, ASIC Sydney, ASIC Brisbane, ASIC Melbourne, ASIC Perth, ASIC Adelaide and ASIC Hobart offices.

18 October 2022

Speak up

Speak Up project involves the implementation of a two-way communication platform, where ASIC staff can anonymously raise a concern or make a confidential report about suspected wrongdoing.

15 June 2022

Registry transition

The Registry Transition project involves the transfer of staff and functional responsibility for the registers from ASIC to the Australian Business Register Service. In particular, operation of the Registry Business will be performed by the Registrar’s staff (on behalf of ASIC) under an ASIC delegation following a machinery of government change on 15 April 2021.

31 May 2022

ASIC Director ID

Implementation and management of a unique Director Identification Number (Director ID) for eligible officers as part of the Modernising Business Registers Program.

14 September 2021

Internal Dispute Resolution (IDR) Data

Implementation of a mandatory data reporting and publication framework for complaints received by financial firms.

24 May 2021

ATO ASIC Data Fusion Program

Fusion of ASIC and ATO data to assist ATO in identifying phoenixing behaviour.

29 June 2020

Enterprise Data Hub and Data Lake

The project builds and develops the Data Lake and Enterprise Data Hub a new way of warehousing and analysing that data to build ASIC's data capability.

11 June 2020

WebEx for Examinations

As a result of COVID-19 restrictions, considering the adoption of WebEx audio and video conferencing for the purposes of examinations under s 19 of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 and s 256(1) of the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009.

6 May 2020

Single Touch Payroll

The project implements ASIC’s response to the statutory requirement for all employers to notify payments (such as salaries and wages), PAYG withholding and superannuation information to the ATO under Division 389 of Schedule 1 to the Taxation Administration Act 1953 – Reporting by employers.

12 February 2019

Iron Mountain Scan on Demand

This project aims to digitise archived physical files stored offsite when requested by ASIC staff, through services performed by an external provider.

20 December 2018