{"id":4839,"date":"2023-08-09T10:03:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T00:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charmanpartners.com.au\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2023-08-09T10:17:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T00:17:24","slug":"deleting-covid-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/charmanpartners.com.au\/deleting-covid-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Deleting COVID Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2023 Part 2.1A of the Amending Regulations (\u201cCollection and use of Covid-19 Vaccination Information) was revoked by the Victorian Government. As a direct result any COVID-19 data that has been collected, recorded or held by employers <strong>MUST<\/strong>\u00a0be deleted. This data could include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An individual\u2019s COVID-19 vaccination status<\/li>\n<li>Reasons why an individual did not receive any COVID-19 vaccination<\/li>\n<li>Details of dates of vaccination and vaccine type<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Failure to comply with this requirement may lead to the business breaching health Privacy legislation including the federal Privacy Act 1988.<\/p>\n<p>There is no specific direction on how such information must be destroyed however it has been set out that this should be done by taking &#8216;reasonable steps&#8217; applicable to the Employer\u2019s business, in a secure manner, and in accordance with any data destruction policy where applicable.<\/p>\n<p>It is suggested that the following steps may be appropriate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For paper and\/or electronic data: de-identifying the data and ensuring that it cannot be re-identified.<\/li>\n<li>For paper records: securely shredding or suitably destroying the documents but not via general waste services.<\/li>\n<li>For electronic records: overwriting files before they are deleted or \u201cdouble deleting\u201d the files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is important to consider all possible data locations for example files shared with others and backups, as well as types of records for example physical and electronic records when undertaking this exercise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/charmanpartners.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Covid.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4842 \" src=\"https:\/\/charmanpartners.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Covid-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/charmanpartners.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Covid-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/charmanpartners.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Covid-1024x878.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/charmanpartners.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Covid-768x658.jpg 768w, https:\/\/charmanpartners.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Covid.jpg 1106w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/charmanpartners.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cryptocurrency.jpg\">Contributed by <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/charmanpartners.com.au\/staff\/mark-barson\">Mark Barson.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 2023 Part 2.1A of the Amending Regulations (\u201cCollection and use of Covid-19 Vaccination Information) was revoked by the Victorian Government. As a direct result any COVID-19 data that has been collected, recorded or held by employers MUST\u00a0be deleted. This data could include An individual\u2019s COVID-19 vaccination status Reasons why an individual did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,54,14,49,53,52],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Deleting COVID Data - Charman Partners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/charmanpartners.com.au\/deleting-covid-data\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Deleting COVID Data - Charman Partners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In July 2023 Part 2.1A of the Amending Regulations (\u201cCollection and use of Covid-19 Vaccination Information) was revoked by the Victorian Government. 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