Media Release Archive – Australian Privacy Foundation

2021

April 25th - MEDIA RELEASE: Every 3 minutes Australian health services collect 400 data points of up to 25m patients’ medical records
April 6th - MEDIA RELEASE: The government stores all your medical records

2020

June 30th - Advocacy Groups Oppose Google Takeover of Fitbit
April 27th - How [NOT] to earn public trust for the Contact Tracing App?
April 23rd - MEDIA RELEASE: How to earn public trust before the Contact Tracing App

2018

November 9th - The opt-out period should be extended and My Health Record properly evaluated
July 26th - Law enforcement access to My Health Record data
July 24th - MEDIA RELEASE: The biggest privacy risks to your My Health Record – the Government.
July 17th - APF joins a coalition of human rights groups and experts in calling on the Australian government to protect encryption
July 11th - MEDIA RELEASE: For Sale – Your Privacy and Your Health Data
June 25th - Media Release: Doctors, Lawyers, and Privacy Experts Denounce HealthEngine Sharing Patient Health Data With Non-GPs
May 18th - MEDIA RELEASE: Government’s “My Health Record”: No Consent Required? Opt-Out withdrawal of consent deadline is 15 October 2018
April 30th - MEDIA RELEASE: Australian Privacy Foundation “seriously alarmed” about recent revelations that would allow Australian Signals Directorate to spy on Australians with even less accountability
April 6th - MEDIA RELEASE: Time To Stop The Privacy Trainwrecks
March 30th - Statement to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement
March 19th - MEDIA RELEASE: Australian Digital Rights Organisations Call For Politicians To Clarify Their Dealings With Cambridge Analytica
March 15th - APF response to statement from QLD Police Minister
March 14th - MEDIA RELEASE: NSW Tribunal finds that the Opal card breaches privacy
February 1st - MEDIA RELEASE: We need to have a serious talk about snooping
January 28th - MEDIA RELEASE: Who is photographing your kids?
January 7th - MEDIA RELEASE: ‘Open Data’: Too much sharing, too little care? Who’s reading your health information now?

2017

November 28th - MEDIA RELEASE: Why is the government planning to gather all Australian’s Medical Data? … and will not be running a mass media campaign to let you know how to opt-out.
November 23rd - MEDIA RELEASE: Does privacy matter less if your data is breached by your State Government?
October 6th - MEDIA RELEASE: Comprehensive national face database incompatible with a free society
September 29th - MEDIA RELEASE: Big Brother Arrives By Public Transport
September 14th - MEDIA RELEASE: Attacks on Encryption: Privacy, Civil Society and the Surveillance State
September 10th - Kissing goodbye to your health privacy? Governments must work harder.
July 27th - Privacy Climate Change
July 2nd - Advocates from five nations demand their governments respect strong encryption
May 14th - Should Business be Free to Ignore Consumer Consent and Privacy??
May 8th - Privacy in Australasia Gets a Boost
March 10th - There’s a Bully in Town … and it’s perfectly legal
March 5th - Not Worth the Paper It’s Printed On? Time to Talk About Protecting Human Rights
January 19th - Federal Court Decision Guts the Privacy Act
January 18th - Decision in Privacy Commissioner v Telstra Corporation to be handed down tomorrow morning
January 18th - The Imminent Threat of Automated Government
January 1st - Pre-2017 Media Releases