Privacy Act 1988Privacy CommissionerTen reasons for the non-existence of privacy law in Australia are highlighted. Some of the reasons include courts not having developed the general law, international instruments having under performed and settled complaints not being used as a guide for subsequent ...
Australian businesses are bound by the Privacy Act 1988 if: they handle Personal Information (defined below); and have $3 million or more in annual turnover; or are captured by the second set of criteria set out in the Act -> see https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy-law/rights-and-re...
Australia regulates data privacy through a mix of territorial, federal, and state laws. The main law that governs the continent is the Australian Federal Privacy Act 1988 (also known as the Privacy Act). The Privacy Act was introduced as a way to better manage and protect the privacy of ...
1. Introduction – AustralianSuper respects your privacy The following is information about AustralianSuper’s Privacy Policy and the way in which AustralianSuper has implemented the requirements of the Privacy Act 1988. Protecting your personal information is important to us, and is required by law....
Similar to the Australian privacy principles, New Zealand law lays out 12 information privacy principles (NZ IPPs) for the proper handling of personal information of Kiwi citizens, and these principles can be found athttp://privacy.org.nz/information-privacy-principles. The Act and 12 IPPs presum...
It lapsed. A significantly revised Bill was introduced in late 1988, and following amendments in the House, passed into law in December of that year. This paper assesses the Privacy Act 1988 against the international guidelines. It concludes that the Act falls short of the OECD requirements in...
Act of 1905!? They must be kidding. Did they have hackers, online scams, crashing websites and data mining back then? We are lucky the laws on this continent are relatively young. Elseways we could have been subject to some medieval law giving the ABS powers to execute by hanging, drawi...
This law applies specifically to businesses or organizations that are required to abide by the Privacy Act. This means that businesses, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, health service providers, and other organizations that had an annual turnover of at least $3 million will need to adhe...
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Bunnings relied on two permitted general situations (PGS) set out in s 16A of the Privacy Act. In relation to identifying violent POIs, Bunnings relied on PGS 1 which provides an exception where: it is unreasonable or impracticable to obtain the individual's...