Legal NEWS - ALRC Privacy Discussion Paper - released 12 September 2007
On 12 September 2007, the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) released a 2,000 page discussion paper entitled Review of Australian Privacy Law. The discussion paper sets out the ALRC's preliminary views on how Australia's complex privacy laws could be revamped and calls for comments from interested parties by 7 December 2007. A final report to the Attorney General is due by 31 March 2008. The most radical proposals in the discussion paper include the unification of the public sector Information Privacy Principles and the private sector National Privacy Principles, the creation of a statutory cause of action for invasion of privacy and the removal of the exemptions currently granted in respect of employee records, small businesses (with a turnover of less than $3 million) and political parties.
Source - Blake Dawson Waldron Lawyers
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