Privacy in Australia: Brief to UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Privacy

(2018) Privacy in Australia: Brief to UN Special Rapporteur on Right to Privacy. Australian Privacy Foundation, Australia.

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This brief has been prepared by the Australian Privacy Foundation in response to a request by the UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy Professor Joseph Cannataci. This arose following a meeting of civil society representatives in Sydney in late July 2018 to discuss issues of privacy in Australia. This brief is structured as follows. First, an overview of some of the systemic issues in Australia’s human rights and privacy framework is provided. This is followed by an examination of some of the recent symptomatic manifestations of these systemic issues. We conclude with a list of key recommendations for the UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy to consider in the Australian context. Our main recommendations are: 1. Introduce an enforceable charter or bill of human rights at the federal level; 2. Introduce a privacy tort; 3. Appoint a Federal Privacy Commissioner and increase funding to the Office of the Australian Information Commission; 4. Implement proactive principles of privacy by design and data protection by design and default rather than reactive remedial attempts; 5. Consider the impacts of data collection and use in ways that extend beyond privacy, and; 6. Encourage, respect and promote Indigenous Data Sovereignty initiatives and associated principles in the collection and use of information concerning Australia’s Indigenous Peoples.

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