AUSTRALIAN PRIVACY CHARTER COUNCIL
ANNUAL REPORT 1999-2000

Convenor

Australian Privacy Charter Council

Version of July 2000

© Australian Privacy Charter Council, 2000

This document is at http://www.privacy.org.au/apcc/AnnRpts/AR00.html


Introduction

This is the report to the A.G.M. on the previous year's activities, by Nigel Waters (Convenor) and Tim Dixon (Secretary).

Copies of all submissions and letters referred to in this Report are available from Nigel or Tim, or (progressively) in the Submissions section of this web site.

In addition, various media comments were made by spokespersons on behalf of the Council during the year.


1999
12 July

Written submission to the Attorney-General's Dept on the Model Forensic Procedures Bill and the Proposed National DNA Database.

9 August

1999 AGM

October

Written submission to the House of Representatives Committee on Economics, Finance and Public Administration Inquiry into the Management of Tax File Numbers

October

Written submission to the Attorney-General's Department on its September 1999 information paper 'Proposed legislation for the protection of privacy in the private sector'


2000
January

Written submission to the Attorney-General's Department on its 'Proposed National Privacy Legislation - further details' paper, released in December 1999

February

E-mail submission to the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) on its Inquiry into the unauthorised disclosure of personal information from Queensland Police

March

Oral evidence to the Queensland CJC Inquiry (Greg Taylor)

March

letter to Privacy Commissioner seeking advice on effect of proposed law in various scenarios (met with PC to discuss and written reply received in May)

April

letter to Privacy Commissioner concerning TFNs and PAYG.

May

Written submission to House of Representatives Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry into the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000

27 May

Supplementary submission by e-mail to the House of Representatives Committee

2 June

Oral evidence to House of Representatives Committee Inquiry into the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000 (Chris Connolly)

7 June

Written submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on ASIO Inquiry into public reporting of ASIO

17 July

Oral evidence to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on ASIO Inquiry (Nigel Waters)

31 July

Submission to the Senate Committee on Information Technologies Inquiry into e-Privacy


Navigation

Go to APCC's Home-Page.

Go to the contents-page for this segment.

Send an email to the APCC Convenor

Created: 3 August 2000

Last Amended: June 2003


Sponsorship

APCC thanks its site-sponsor: