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What would be the expected answer for those two questions for this case study please? I have no clear ideal where to go. Thank you advance in suggesting direction:
Case:
XYZ Realty Group (XYZRG) is a prominent high-end real estate agency headquartered in Melbourne. XYZRG offers real estate services to buy, sell, rent, invest, and manage all kinds of real estate properties throughout Australia. XYZRG, which has a large customer base, conducts high-value transactions involving large sums of money on a daily basis. A large quantity of proprietary information is managed and secured at the data centre, which is located at the corporate headquarter.
Each XYZRG real estate agent is given a laptop with a variety of up-to-date advanced security products (e.g., antimalware and firewall) and software applications (e.g., MS Word and Excel) pre-installed. The agents are permitted to use the laptop both inside and outside the office to serve XYZRG clients (e.g., buyers, renters, residents, corporations, and investors). The laptop also comes with virtual desktop software to securely connect to XYZRG and access resources from the data centre.
Carole, a top-performing real estate agent in the Melbourne office, frequently stores data locally on her laptop in plain-text. The laptop was password-protected, but her password is terribly weak. She also uses the laptop, in addition to servicing XYZRG clients within Melbourne, to stay connected with the clients and other agents, market business to clients, share data and information with other XYZRG and other agents, and close deals quickly.
To protect the assets at the data centre, XYZRG deploys access control systems, firewalls, antivirus and anti-malware software, denial of service prevention, an email security system, and so on.
Question;
Carole left her company-issued laptop in a locked car while running an errand. The car was broken into, and the laptop stolen. Analyse and reflect on the laptop incident under appropriate privacy legislation by considering the following questions:
• Why should XYZRG consider the incident may have violated privacy legislation?
• What obligations does XYZRG have under privacy legislation, if any, what those obligations are, and why XYZRG need to comply to those obligations?
Support your analysis with good evidence and examples.