AUSTRALIAN PRIVACY CHARTER COUNCIL
ANNUAL REPORT 2000-2001

Convenor

Australian Privacy Charter Council

Version of August 2001

© Australian Privacy Charter Council, 2001

This document is at http://www.privacy.org.au/apcc/AnnRpts/AR01.html


Introduction

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

Copies of all submissions and letters referred to in this Report are available from Nigel, 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.


2000
July

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

July

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

September

Submission to Land Victoria on its Review of Purpose, Access and Uses of the Land Titles Register and Associated Documentation.


2001
March

Submission to the Australian Domain Name Registration Authority (auDA) Model Competition Advisory Panel about privacy implications of proposed changes to Internet domain name registration

March

Invited to be part of an informal reference group to provide comments to Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner on the first draft of the Code Development Guidelines

March

Letter to the federal Attorney-General expressing concern about the withdrawal of an invitation to participate in a consultative group reviewing the EU Commission's criticism of Australian privacy law. The invitation was withdrawn on the basis that `your views are already known'! No reply was received.

May

Submission to Privacy NSW on Proposed Code of Practice for disclosures of personal information outside New South Wales

May

Attended meeting of the Victorian Law Reform Commission's Privacy Expert Advisory Group to advise on its privacy reference, and gave subsequent comment on draft information paper (Nigel & Tim (as APF Director))

June

Submission to the federal Privacy Commissioner - Comments on Draft Code Development Guidelines (Word file)

July

Submission to the federal Privacy Commissioner - Comments on draft National Privacy Principle (NPP) Guidelines

July

Submission to the Better Medication Management System (BMMS) team on the privacy implications of BMMS and the BMMS Exposure draft legislation.

July

Submission to the Commonwealth Privacy Commissioner on his consultation paper: Privacy Issues in the Use of Public Key Infrastructure for Individuals and Possible Guidelines for Handling Privacy Issues in the Use of PKI for Individuals by Commonwealth agencies. (Word file)

July

Submission to the Senate Legal & Constitutional Committee Inquiry into the Cybercrime Bill 2001

August

Submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the National Crime Authority's Inquiry into the Law enforcement implications of new technology


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