The Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) can be viewed at http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/pa1988108/ Our personal information handling practices What is personal information? We use the definition of personal information contained in s 6(1) of the Privacy Act. It states that personal...
Australia’s Privacy Act 1988 now includes considerably stronger enforcement powers, including civil penalties of up to AUD $1.7 million (1.15 million euros), in effect from 12 March 2014. This article first outlines the new powers, and argues that there are still deficiencies in appeal rights ...
Check for yourself, you can find the full text of the Act on austlii.edu.au. It appears that most data collected by the ABS is done on the basis of voluntary cooperation. The scary words in this context mean that the Act gives the ABS the power to direct someone to provide ...
* The Privacy Act 1988 During 1988, as an alternative to the withdrawn Australia Card proposal, the Government set out to significantly enhance the Tax File Number (TFN) scheme used by the Australian Tax Office. In order to gain the necessary support of the Senate, the Government introduced ...
For reviews of the law in Australia, see Tucker (1992), Hughes (1991), the Australian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) generally, and Privacy Law & Policy Reporter's Australian Privacy Guide more specifically. At federal level, the Commonwealth Privacy Act was passed only in 1988, and ...
Dixon T. (1995) 'Invisible Eyes: Report on Video Surveillance in the Workplace', Privacy Committee of N.S.W., Report No.67, August 1995, , at http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/privacy/video/index.html DoS (1997) 'Australia - Surveillance And Monitoring', National Trade Data Bank ...