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From 12 March 2013 content is no longer being added to, or amended, on this site, consequently some information may be out of date.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

What are social networking sites?

Social networking sites are websites that let people socialise online, send messages to one another, share interests and information, chat, meet people, and post information, photos and videos about themselves for others to look at.

Some well-known social networking sites are MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and Bebo.

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