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• The Commonwealth abandons privacy - for now [Search]
  Article by Graham Greenleaf, (1997) 4 PLPR 1. An assessment of the factors which might lead to the Commonwealth government reversing its position and legislating
• Flaws in the Glass; Gashes in the Fabric: Deficiencies in the Australian Privacy-Protective Regime [Search]
  Address given by Roger Clarke to Symposium on The New Privacy Laws, Sydney, 19 February 1997. The purpose of this paper is to catalogue aspects of the existing privacy-protective regime that fall short of the public's needs.
• The most restrictive credit reference laws in the Western World? [Search]
  Article by Graham Greenleaf, (1992) 66 ALJ 672 -674; Vol 9 Computer Law and Security Report, 64-65. What have been described as 'the most restrictive credit reporting laws in the Western world' resulted from a very effective campaign in 1989 by privacy advocates after the credit industry attempted to expand into 'positive reporting'
• 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 and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (NSW) - A new era for public sector privacy in NSW [Search]
  Article by Graham Greenleaf, (1999) 5 PLPR 130. This Act heralds a new era for the protection of privacy in the New South Wales public sector - but not just yet
• Privacy and Public Registers [Search]
  Address given by Roger Clarke at IIR Conference on Data Protection and Privacy, May 1997. A particular weaknesses in some privacy regimes is the notion of a 'public register'. This paper explains the concept and its origins, and identifies examples. It then examines the impact that information technology is having, and outlines the competing public interests
• Privacy and Surveillance [Search]
  Contains articles related to privacy and surveillance issues (on Electronic Frontiers Australia - EFA)
• Privacy Charter sets new benchmark in privacy protection
  Article by Tim Dixon, [1995] PLPR 30. The Australian Privacy Charter Council aims to make the Privacy Charter, launched recently, one of the major privacy protection initiatives of the 1990s. The Privacy Charter sets out 18 general privacy and data protection standards whose content reflects the range of issues associated with the right to privacy in the 1990s. These principles are intended for uniform application across all sectors of the economy. The Council aims to take privacy protection beyond the regulatory environment and into the private sector as an issue of best practice.
• 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 Issues in Smart Card Applications in the Retail Financial Sector [Search]
  Paper by Roger Clarke published in 'Smart Cards and the Future of Your Money', Australian Commission for the Future, June 1996. Analysis of the opportunities for privacy protection afforded by smart cards, and the threats arising from them, and public policy issues
• 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.
• Putting the National Principles in Context [Search]
  Graham Greenleaf and Nigel Waters, (1998) 4 PLPR 181. Criticism of the role and content of the 'National Principles for the Fair Handling of Personal Information'
• Serious Flaws in the National Privacy Principles [Search]
  Article by Roger Clarke, PLPR 4, 9 (March 998). The Privacy Commissioner's National Principles of February 1998 contain some serious flaws, and in any case fail to advance the debate beyond the late 1970s.
• 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.
• What Do People Really Think? MasterCard's Survey of the Australian Public's Attitudes to Privacy [Search]
  Article by Roger Clarke, (1997) 3 PLPR 9. During 1996, a major study was commissioned by MasterCard International. The present paper provides an outline of the results of the study.