Draft changes to Telecommunications Privacy Laws
EFA’s submission to the Attorney-General’s Department expresses serious concerns about the Exposure Draft of Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2007. The draft contains new powers enabling law enforcement agencies to access telecommunications data without a warrant, which were not recommended in the Blunn Review Report, and other provisions that are contrary to some recommendations […]
Access Card Bill seriously deficient
The exposure draft of an Access Card Bill has exacerbated EFA’s opposition to the system. The broad powers to be granted to the Minister and DHS officers facilitates function creep, negates implied promises about limits on storage of information in the national ID database, and possibly even enables the collection of fingerprints, etc. Proposed offences […]
ALRC Privacy Review
EFA sent a submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission in response to ALRC Issues Paper 31 Review of Privacy. EFA considers the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) is in need of major overhaul. It is inadquate to protect the privacy of Australians in the 21st century. See EFA’s submission to the ALRC.
IPND Bill introduced
The Telecommunications Amendment (Integrated Public Number Database) Bill 2006 was introduced into Federal Parliament. This Bill will improve privacy protection for telephone subscriber information stored in the IPND and will implement a situation substantially similar to that advocated in EFA’s July 2005 submission to the ACMA concerning data sourced from the IPND. Unfortunately however the […]
Telemarketing Standard
EFA sent a submission in response to the ACMA’s Discussion Paper on an Industry Standard for the Making of Telemarketing Calls. The ACMA is required by the Do Not Call Register Act 2006 to develop a national telemarketing standard to provide consumers with greater certainty regarding the minimum level of behaviour they can expect from […]