Contacts

Contact Points

General Email to enquiries@privacy.org.au; or to the appropriate Office-Bearer below.

Media Enquiries to any of the following:

• Chair – (Dr) Roger Clarke, (02) 6288 1472
• Vice-Chair - David Vaile, 0414 731 249
• Nigel Waters, (02) 4981 0828 or 0407 230 342
• (Prof) Graham Greenleaf, (02) 9569 5310

See below for the APF's Officers and individual Board Members.

See below also for SubCommittee Chairs.

A separate page offers contact points for people with specialist expertise who are prepared to be approached by the media.

The Board strongly prefers all communications to be by electronic means, i.e. email or phone.

ONLY IF ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, hard-copy materials can be posted to G.P.O. Box 1196, Sydney NSW 2001. But, if so, then IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT EMAIL ADVICE BE SENT AT THE SAME TIME, as otherwise there will be delays in picking up and forwarding the 'snail mail'.

Officers and Board Members

Chair – (Dr) Roger Clarke – (02) 6288 1472

• Roger is a consultant focussing on strategic and policy aspects of eBusiness, information infrastructure, and dataveillance and privacy, working through his own company, Xamax Consultancy. He has a long list of both formal and informal publications, and is a Visiting Professor at universities in Australia and overseas. He has been an active privacy advocate since 1972, an active privacy researcher since 1975, an active privacy consultant since 1977, and a Board member of APF since its inception in 1987

Vice-Chair - David Vaile – 0414 731 249

• David is Executive Director of UNSW's Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, a research and policy centre dealing with public interest issues arising from networked transactions and the Internet. The Centre and its research associates engage with a range of privacy-related issues. He has also worked at the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner and Privacy NSW, and with a range of other organisations including legal services and online content developers

Vice-Chair - (Dr) Dan Svantesson – (07) 5595 1418

• Dan is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Bond University. He specialises in international aspects of the IT society, and has a strong interest in privacy law.

Secretary - Matthew Watts – 0409 017 891

• Matthew is a public servant based in Canberra. He has professional experience in the administration of privacy law, and is studying Public Policy at postgraduate level. Matthew was a candidate in the 2008 ACT Legislative Assembly election and is a member of the Australian Institute of Administrative Law, the Institute of Public Administration Australia and Electronic Frontiers Australia

Treasurer - Jan Whitaker – 0403 209 448

• Jan is an IT consultant in Melbourne. Her interests in privacy span the avoidance of the use of IT to exploit people by government and corporate parties, to how privacy regulation should be used to protect the interests of the vulnerable and those with quiet voices in society. Jan has qualifications in Music Education and Educational Technology. She has served on the Community Advisory Committee for Southern Health (Victoria), AUSTRAC Privacy Reference Committee, the editorial committee for "Health Issues", the Community Reference Committee for the Health Privacy Act in Victoria, auDA Domain Name Supplier Code of Practice panel, the Board of Electronic Frontiers Australia, and various conference planning committees

Public Officer - Nigel Waters – (02) 4981 0828 or 0407 230 342

• Nigel has been a member of APF since 1997, and of the Australian Privacy Charter Council from 1992 until it was absorbed by the Foundation. Former Deputy Federal Privacy Commissioner (1989-97) and Assistant UK Data Protection Registrar (1985-89). Before that a wholly unrelated career and blithely unaware of privacy as an issue! Since 1997, independent consultant on privacy to public and private organizations as principal of Pacific Privacy Consulting. Associate Editor of Privacy Law & Policy Reporter, Visiting Fellow at UNSW Law School and occasional contributor to the media on privacy issues.

(Dr) Julie Cameron – 0414 402 978

• Julie is a foundation member of the APF, was the convenor of the Australian Privacy Charter Council and an APF Board member in 2002-03. Since 1986 she has worked with the International Federation for Information Processing on issues related to the impact of ICT on the community. Her career includes executive roles in the government and private sectors, and ICT consultancy. Julie is currently managing director of Info.T.EC Solutions Pty Ltd. Her PhD
  is in computer science and engineering.

(Dr) Juanita Fernando – (03) 9905 8537 or 0408 131 535

• Juanita is a lecturer with the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. She undertook her doctorate with the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. Her research concerns medical informatics and information security. She has developed a particular emphasis on e-health tools and their contribution to work-flow methodologies in the health sector.

(Prof) Graham Greenleaf – (02) 9569 5310 (h)

• Graham is Professor at Law at UNSW. He is co-director of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) and the World Legal Information Insitute (WorldLII), and co-director of UNSW's Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre. He is also one of the convenors of the Asia-Pacific Privacy Charter Council. From July 2001- December 2002 he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. At HKU Graham led the introduction of the new Master of Laws in Information Technology Law was also the founding Co-Director of the Hong Kong Legal Information Institute, and of the China Information Technology and Law Centre

Muhammad Usman Iqbal – 0425 393 098 or (02) 9385 4206 (w)

• Usman is currently a doctoral candidate at the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. His area of research is Privacy-aware Automotive Telematics where he seeks an understanding of ‘locational privacy’ and the importance of designing privacy-respecting technology solutions. He also holds a Masters and Bachelors degree in Computer Science. Prior to post-graduate studies, Usman has worked in industry as a Software Engineer for 2 years

(Dr) Katina Michael – (02) 4221 3937 (w) or 0431 201 172

• Katina Michael is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Systems and Technology at the University of Wollongong, and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She received a Bachelor of Information Technology degree from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 1996 and a Ph.D. degree in information technology and communications from the University of Wollongong in 2003. Before joining academia in 2002, she worked as a senior network and business planner at Nortel Networks

Lindy Smith

• Lindy has been operating as a privacy consultant in Melbourne since 1998, through her company Privacy Management. Before then, she was Director of Policy for the Federal Privacy Commissioner for four years

(Dr) Holly Tootell – (02) 4221 5603 (w)

• Holly is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Informatics, University of Wollongong. She specialises in social implications of IT, location privacy and national security. Holly has worked in academia since 2001 and prior to that, in industry as an eBusiness consultant.

SubCommittees

Health SubCommittee - Chair: (Dr) Juanita Fernando, (03) 9905 8537 or 0408 131 535

The SubCommittee's scope includes Patient Data of all kinds; Electronic Health Records; Health Care Procedures; Administrative, Insurance and Research Use of identifiable personal data; Genetic / DNA-related personal data; Emergency-related personal data; Personal data related to organ donations; Interventions with the human body, including medical procedures and consent issues, but extending to other contexts such as enforced acquisition of body fluids and body tissue, and post mortem procedures

Internet SubCommittee - Chair: (Dr) Dan Svantesson, (07) 5595 1418

The SubCommittee's scope includes Spam; Technologies for geo-identification; and Privacy violations relating to email, the Web, Weblogs, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and other existing or future Internet usages

Surveillance SubCommittee - Being re-constituted later in 2009 - enquiries to the Board Chair

The SubCommittee's scope includes Audio Surveillance (including directional microphones and audio-recording); Visual Surveillance (including open and concealed cameras and video-recording); Transport-Related Surveillance (including tracking devices such as RFID and GPS); and other aspects such as electronic surveillance (e.g. telephone interception, Internet traffic interception, and third-party archival of Internet traffic), data surveillance, workplace surveillance, and email and web-usage surveillance

Telecommunications SubCommittee - Chair: Nigel Waters, (02) 4981 0828 or 0407 230 342

The SubCommittee's scope includes the primary statutes in the area, and proposals for changes to them, especially the Telecommunications Act, Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act and Do Not Call Register Act; all forms of law enforcement and national security agency powers relating to access to traffic data and to the content of traffic; the primary regulators in the area, and especially ACMA and the TIO; telephone numbers, silent numbers, CLI/CND and IPND; exceptional access to privacy-sensitive data, e.g. for emergency management; identity authentication re telecommunications services; emergent services such as VOIP, ENUM and applications of location technologies

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