While the media is rightly concerned about protecting freedom of expression, this paper argues that this must not be to the exclusion of privacy rights. This paper, presented at the 2010 Conference of the Centre for Media and Communications Law, argues that there are at present significant gaps in privacy laws. People’s privacy rights are...

This Information Sheet is designed for employers bound by the Information Privacy Act 2000 (Vic) (IPA) – for example, Victorian state government organisations (including local councils, Victoria Police and courts). The IPA is about information privacy: it regulates how Victorian public sector organisations collect and deal with personal information about individuals. “Personal information” is recorded...

Victoria’s system of criminal record checks needs legislative reform to meet the pressures of increasing demand and changing technologies, according to a new report by Paul Chadwick, Victorian Privacy Commissioner (OVPC). The report recommends that the Government develop a Controlled Disclosure of Criminal Records Bill to provide for the first time in Victoria a central...