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• Inquiry into e-Privacy
  Senate Select Committee on Information Technologies (in PDF)
• The Packer / PBL / Acxiom InfoBase [Search]
  Article by Roger Clarke. Information page with links concerning this data mining proposal and its privacy implications
• Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000 - Exporting and importing personal data [Search]
  Paper given by Graham Greenleaf, National Privacy and Data Protection Summit IBC Conferences - Sydney 17 & 18 May 2000. A discussion of whether the Australian Bill is likely to receive a finding of 'adequacy' from the EU's A31 Committee
• Privacy and cyberspace: An ambiguous relationship [Search]
  Article by Graham Greenleaf (1996) 3 PLPR 88 which surveys some of the main elements of the simultaneous potential for private communication and extensive surveillance, starting with a look at some apparently new issues raised by the internet, and then by examining how existing privacy laws, particularly those dealing with interception and with privacy principles, deal with cyberspace issues
• Privacy Implications of Digital Signatures [Search]
  Paper given by Roger Clarke at IBC Conference on Digital Signatures, 12 March 1997. This paper identifies the privacy implications of digital signatures and some weaknesses in current approaches in law and policy in Australia
• Privacy Principles - irrelevant to cyberspace? [Search]
  Article by Graham Greenleaf published in (1996) 3 PLPR 114. The applicability of each of the IPPs to privacy issues relating to the internet is covered in this article.
• Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979 (Cth) - Interception on the internet - the risks for ISPs [Search]
  Article by Graham Greenleaf, (1996) 3 PLPR 93. The Act poses unexpected potential dangers for internet service providers (ISPs), employers and others who may (intentionally or otherwise) monitor, copy or otherwise deal with communications passing through their facilities
• Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill 1997 (Cth) - Telcommunications interception - extending the reach or maintaining the status quo [Search]
  Article by Nigel Waters, (1997) 4 PLPR 110. The article details amendments to interception provisions, and particularly the need to obtain a warrant, in the Bill
• Victoria's draft Data Protection Bill - The new model Bill? [Search]
  Article by Graham Greenleaf, (1999) 5 PLPR 136. The draft Bill removes many of the uncertainties about the Victorian Government's original proposals, and generally does so by clarifying that strong privacy protection is intended. The government has responded to many of the submissions it received.