Company extracts purchased through the ASIC website will no longer contain the residential addresses of company officeholders.
ASIC implemented this change in response to broader privacy and safety concerns including the potential to access personal information, heightened concerns around personal safety and to reduce the risk of identity theft and cyber-crime.
This change is a sensible precaution that balances the need to reduce easily accessible personal information while maintaining effective and transparent registers.
This action does not remove residential address information entirely but introduces a barrier at the most widely available access point.
Law enforcement agencies, government departments, and those who require address details for regulatory compliance and business purposes will still have access to this information.
ASIC will engage registry intermediaries to help them understand how this change affects them and continue to monitor the implementation to assess any impacts upon users.
Customers accessing ASIC registers via the website can visit Company and organisation registers for more information.
Background
ASIC’s ongoing RegistryConnect program will strengthen the quality and integrity of registry data, including through the future linking of director IDs to the companies register which allows the further reduction of personal information being stored on the registers.
RegistryConnect will also introduce stronger methods to validate and authenticate users without exposing private details. These improvements will support the accuracy and availability of business information and provide greater assurance to the public that people interacting with the registers are who they say they are.
A Treasury consultation on draft laws to improve Australia’s business registers is open until 10 February 2026. ASIC will continue to engage closely with Treasury on any future work to enhance the integrity and reliability of ASIC’s registers.
ASIC is Australia’s corporate, markets and financial services regulator.