It looks as though Australia’s privacy regulator, Timothy Pilgrim, is calling full time for business under changes to their privacy law obligations which took effect in March 2014. Amongst other things, those laws give the regulator power to proactively investigate and ultimately fine non compliant businesses. In a speech last week, Mr Pilgrim announced that “we are just getting ready to conduct an assessment of the online privacy policies of 21 entities...”. The 21 businesses have not been named.

Here is Mr Pilgrim’s full speech.