Framework overlap

Does SOC 2 cover Privacy Act 1988 (Australia)?

You hold SOC 2 and have been told to do Privacy Act 1988 (Australia). Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

75% of Privacy Act 1988 (Australia) you already have

SOC 2 already covers about 75% of Privacy Act 1988 (Australia), leaving 2 of 8 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 0 Likely covered 6 New work 2

No control in SOC 2 maps directly to one in Privacy Act 1988 (Australia). Everything counted as covered is covered because both map to the same third standard, which is what a crosswalk is, but it is an inference rather than a lookup.

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in SOC 2 reaches these. This is the list to scope.

AUPRV-2
APP 2-5 Anonymity, Solicited/Unsolicited Collection, Notification
AUPRV-5
APP 12-13 Access and Correction of Personal Information
Show the 6 you already have
AUPRV-1
APP 1 Open and Transparent Management + Privacy Management Framework
AUPRV-3
APP 6-9 Use/Disclosure, Direct Marketing, Cross-Border, Government Identifiers
AUPRV-4
APP 10-11 Quality, Security of Personal Information
AUPRV-6
Sensitive Information, PIA, Privacy by Design, Children
AUPRV-7
Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) Scheme, Incident Response
AUPRV-8
OAIC Cooperation, Vendor Management, Training, Complaints, Enforcement

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in SOC 2 to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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