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A-Z
Documents under "G": Brochures (1) | Case Notes (5) | Guidelines (6) | Reports (1) | Speeches (4) | Submissions (2)
Brochures
Guide to Privacy for Small Business
pdf (172.79 KB)
Case Notes
G v Counselling Service [2009] PrivCmrA 9
pdf (82.53 KB)
Failure to provide adequate notice when collecting personal information, disclosure of personal information and security of personal information
G v Credit Provider [2003] PrivCmrA 5
pdf (11.82 KB)
Disputed default on consumer credit information file on the grounds that the amount listed was inaccurate
G v Financial Institutions X and Y [2008] PrivCmrA 7
pdf (23.88 KB)
Improper disclosure of personal information and accuracy of personal information.
G v Law Firm [2007] PrivCmrA 9
pdf (20.83 KB)
Inappropriate use and disclosure of information gathered by a law firm
Guidelines
Guidelines for Federal and ACT Government Websites
March 2003 The purpose of these Guidelines is to assist Federal and ACT government agencies to adopt best privacy practice and comply with the Privacy Act in respect to their websites. If personal information may be transmitted, published, solicited and collected via the Internet, agencies need to consider the relevant privacy implications whe...
Guidelines for Job Applicants
pdf (128.66 KB)
Guidelines on Workplace E-mail, Web Browsing and Privacy
Introduction Background The Technical Realities of E-mail Use and Privacy Jurisdiction and Legal Issues Developing a Policy Guidelines Conclusion Introduction The use of the Internet by governments and organisations has raised concerns about the privacy of staff e-mail and web browsing activities. Despit...
Guidelines under section 95 of the Privacy Act 1988: privacy and medical research (March 2000)
pdf (205 KB)
Guidelines under section 95A of the Privacy Act 1988 (December 2001)
pdf (272.16 KB)
Guidelines under section 95AA of the Privacy Act 1988: Use and disclosure of genetic information to a patient’s genetic relatives (December 2009)
pdf (652.27 KB)
Reports
Getting in on the Act: the Review of the Private Sector Provisions of the Privacy Act 1988
pdf (1.16 MB)
This report is the first major examination of how the laws governing the use of personal information by the private sector in Australia have worked in their first years of operation.
Speeches
Good privacy is good business
pdf (207.94 KB)
Speech by Karen Curtis, Privacy Commissioner, Office of the Privacy Commissioner. Delivered to New Zealand Privacy Issues Forum, 30 March 2006.
Good Privacy is Good Business
pdf (204.98 KB)
Speech by Karen Curtis, Privacy Commissioner, to the Trans Tasman Business Circle, Canberra, 24 March 2009
Good privacy is good business the path to excellence
pdf (677.64 KB)
Speech by Karen Curtis, Privacy Commissioner, 2010 Government Business Conference, Sydney, 6 May 2010
Submissions
Government Agency Coercive Information-Gathering Powers Draft Report; Submission to the Administrative Review Council (March 2007)
pdf (172.53 KB)
Government Agency Coercive Information-Gathering Powers; Draft Report Submission to the Administrative Review Council March 2007
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