Privacy Impact Assessments

The AEC conducts privacy impact assessments (‘PIA’) on all high privacy risk projects. A project may be a high privacy risk if the AEC reasonably considers that the project involves any new or changed ways of handling personal information that are likely to have a significant impact on the privacy of individuals.

The AEC maintains a register of PIAs below. To obtain more information or a summary copy of a PIA, please contact us via the online privacy enquiry form.

Privacy Impact Assessment Summary Register (effective from 1 July 2018)

Project	Date	PIA Summary
AEC Federal Election Application	20 December 2018	An assessment of the privacy compliance and management issues associated with the AEC Federal Election Application – a publicly available mobile application for use in Federal election events and referendums.
AEC Electronic Records Management System	8 May 2019	An assessment of the privacy compliance and management issues associated with the development and implementation of an Electronic Document Records Management System by the AEC.
AEC Self Service Platform: Releases 1-3	4 October 2019	An assessment of the privacy compliance and management issues associated with the development and implementation of releases 1-3 of the AEC Self Service Platform.
Electoral Legislation Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Act 2019 – section 44 mandatory qualification checklist	17 October 2019	An assessment of the privacy compliance and management issues arising from the implementation and operation of the Electoral and Legislation Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Act 2019 – specifically the introduction of a compulsory requirement for individuals nominating as candidates for election to Parliament to answer every mandatory question of the qualification checklist.
AEC Complaints, Enquiries and Feedback (CEF) Management	21 November 2019	An assessment of the privacy compliance and management issues associated with the AEC’s update of its Complaints, Enquiries and Feedback (CEF) procedures as part of the CEF project and AEC’s compliance with the Complaint Management Framework.
AEC Financial Management Information Systems Refresh – Project – Technology One and Expense8	August 2020	An assessment of the privacy compliance and management issues associated with the implementation of the Australian Government’s Shared Services Financial Management Information System (FMIS) based on the Technology One, OneGov solution by the AEC.