Celebrate Privacy Awareness Week 2025

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Published
16th June 2025

This week is Privacy Awareness Week (16–22 June 2025), with this year’s theme reminding us that ‘Privacy: it’s everyone’s business.

PAW aims to shine a light on the importance of protecting and respecting personal information, both from the perspective of the community and public sector agencies.

Every year Queenslanders are becoming more interested and invested in their personal privacy

and the value of their personal information, given the digital world we live in. The community is

also expecting public sector agencies to be doing everything they can to protect the personal

information of Queenslanders.

The 2025 PAW theme highlights that both the community and public sector (from the top to the

bottom) must take privacy seriously. After all, it’s everyone’s business.

Here at Cassowary Coast Regional Council, we take your privacy seriously and we do

everything we can to ensure your privacy rights are respected. This helps create greater trust

with the community.

There are a range of things you can do every day to better protect your privacy and personal

information. Here are some helpful tips:

1. Update your privacy and security settings on all of your devices.

2. Be mindful of what you share on social media about yourself and others.

3. Use multi-factor authentication to better protect your online accounts.

4. Be wary of public wi-fi and avoid using it for things like internet banking.

5. Read terms and conditions and privacy policies when you sign up for a new service or app,

so you know what you’re agreeing to and how your information will be used.

6. Better understand your privacy rights in Queensland by watching this short video (https://youtu.be/QzbK8fl7JOU).

For more information, resources and privacy tips, please visit the Office of the Information

Commissioner’s website (www.oic.qld.gov.au/paw2025).

You can also view our Information Privacy and Confidentiality Policy (www.cassowarycoast.qld.gov.au/downloads/file/4910/information-privacy-and-confidentialitypolicy) and if you are concerned about how our agency has collected, used, stored or shared your personal information, email our Governance Risk & Performance Department at governance@ccrc.qld.gov.au