Site Changes

On 1 November 2010 the Office of the Privacy Commissioner was integrated into the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and a new website established at www.oaic.gov.au.

Note 1: Major changes to the Privacy Act 1988 will come into effect in March 2014. Agencies, businesses and not for profits need to start preparing for these changes. For more information go to our privacy law reform page at www.oaic.gov.au
Note 2: From 12 March 2013 content is no longer being added to, or amended, on this site, consequently some information may be out of date. For new privacy content visit the www.oaic.gov.au website.

Question 1

Question 1:

Is your complaint about information that contains:

your name; or
other details so that people would know it is about you?

Answer:

For example:

An example of information that identifies you even though it does not include your name could be a photograph of you published in your gym's newsletter from which your friends can tell it is you, just from looking at the photograph.

An example of information that does not identify you could be a personal email address, for example gumdrop@example.com, as long as it doesn't contain or link to your real name.

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