[Year 12 IPM] More exciting privacy legislation stuff

[Mark Kelly]

Since my last posting, I have found 
http://privacy.gov.au/act/review/index.html which talks about a Review 
of the Private Sector Provisions of the Privacy Act 1988, conducted in 2005.

This led to http://privacy.gov.au/act/review/review2005.htm which is 
about 319 pages long with 85 recommendations.

One recommendation is "The Australian Government should consider 
retaining but modifying the small business exemption by amending the 
Privacy Act so that the definition of small business is to be expressed 
in terms of the ABS definition, currently 20 employees or fewer, rather 
than annual turnover."

Another recommendation refers to information release during large scale 
emergencies.

However, I still don't know if or when these recommendations will become 
law.

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Mark Kelly
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