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From 12 March 2013 content is no longer being added to, or amended, on this site, consequently some information may be out of date.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.

There`s a lot of information on my ID. Is all of it allowed to be collected?

Not always.

Businesses are only allowed to collect the personal information they need to carry out their activities. This includes ID information. A business can only collect information from your ID that they need for the purpose they told you about.

Businesses must consider each item of information on the ID and decide whether it is needed for that purpose. If the business does not need it, then it can't collect it.

This answer is a summary only.

For more details, see our ID scanning information sheets:

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