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Media Releases
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The APF provides both media backgrounders and on-the-record interviews, across
the full range of privacy concerns.
This page presents APF in the Media, APF's
Media Contacts and APF's Media Releases
APF in the Media
Here are Google News searches for mentions during the last month,
and for earlier
mentions in the archive. (But note that Google News is a highly unreliable
service, and changes continually).
And here are searches running on news outlets' own sites: ABC
News, Computerworld,
ZDNet,
The
Australian, The
Sydney Morning Herald and The
Melbourne Age.
Media Contacts
Media enquiries should be directed as follows:
Submissions to Parliamentary Committees, etc.:
Chair, Policy Committee - Nigel
Waters (02) 4981 0828 or 0407 230 342:
Health Matters:
Chair, Health Committee - (Dr)
Juanita Fernando (03) 9905 8537 or 0408 131 535
Privacy Matters Generally:
Chair – (Dr) Roger Clarke (02)
6288 1472
Vice-Chair - David Vaile 0414 731 249
Vice-Chair - Dan Svantesson (07) 5595 1418
(Prof.) Graham Greenleaf (02)
9569 5310
APF also maintains a list of people who are knowledgeable
about various privacy topics, and who are prepared to be approached by the media.
Media
Releases
The APF issues Media Releases sparingly, because there are usually more effective
ways to represent the public interest in privacy. Here are recent media releases
and related materials:
- Better Processes to Protect Privacy (28 Apr 2013)
- Conroy’s Media Proposals are Late, Timid and Inadequate (18 Mar 2013)
- Beware the Statistics Grinch this Christmas (18 Dec 2012)
- Attorney-General Treating Public and Parliament 'Like Mushrooms' about Communications Data Retention Wish-list (12 Oct 2012)
- APF's 25-Year Milestone (12 Jul 2012)
- Michael Kirby, Elizabeth Evatt and Privacy (10 Jul 2012)
- 'Anti-Privacy Bill' Should be Scrapped (23 May 2012)
- ACMA Refuses to Protect Privacy (22 Dec 2011)
- High Court Declines Opportunity To Consider Privacy In iinet Case Mass Surveillance To Follow? (06 Dec 2011)
- NEHTA Blacklists Privacy Advocate on a Pretext and Supporting Material (15 Nov 2011)
- Census 2011 Public Advisory Statement (2 Aug 2011)
- Big Brother Awards Winners (21 Apr 2011)
- Back to the ID Card That Will Not Die (20 August 2010)
- Coalition to Use Health Identifier to Revive Identity Card (20 August 2010)
- New Evidence: The Health Identifiers Bill (18 June 2010)
- Clarification re Figures on Identity Theft (1 June 2010)
- Healthcare Identifiers (28 May 2010)
- Response to the Privacy Commissioner's Awards (15 November 2009)
- Big Brother Awards - 2009 (11 November 2009)
- Telstra cashing in on your privacy (20 August 2009)
- Media need not fear Privacy Proposals (17 August 2009)
- Leading Privacy Group Rejects Medical Code (11 August 2009)
- Facebook in privacy trouble – millions of Australian users affected (21 July 2009)
- Erosion of Patient Health Privacy Rights as part of Expanded Medicare Audits (16 April 2009), and reply from Medicare (24 April 2009)
- Mass Surveillance of Motor Vehicles (ANPR) (21 September 2008)
- Privacy Awareness Weak – Be Aware, and Alarmed (25 August 2008)
- Google puts privacy up front (6 July 2008)
- Search and you may find – Can you find Google's Privacy Policy? (8 June 2008)
- The petrol crisis – fuel for future privacy violations? [Qld SmartCard] (2 June 2008)
- The Major Parties Fail the Privacy Test (11 November 2007)
- Military DNA (1 November 2007)
- The Ad Campaign You Won't Be Seeing (for AML-CTF) (22 October 2007)
- Internet Censorship Bill (20 September 2007)
- Access Card fast resembling a train wreck (4 June 2007)
- New Minister contradicts his own Department on ID fraud (6 March 2007)
- Access Card: What's the rush? (28 Feb 2007)
- What does the Government have to hide? [Access/ID card] (7 Feb 2007)
- National ID Scheme Information Site Released (4 Feb 2007)
- N.S.W. asleep at the wheel on privacy (1 Feb 2007)
- 2006 Australian Big Brother Awards - The winners! (22 Jan 2007) - plus Attachment
- Access Card – Poor Process, Dangerous Product (15 January 2007)
- Refreshed Board Elected (29 November 2006)
- Access Card will be our national ID card Letter to AFR (9 November 2006)
- Hockey shows his true colours on ID Card (9 November 2006)
- Australians' banking records get a SWIFT kick - straight to the USA (13 October 2006)
- Nominations open for Big Brother Awards 2006 (3 October 2006)
- Rights and wrongs in smartcard debate (2
October 2006, Letter published in AFR)
- Never surrender in privacy fight (4 July
2006, Letter published in AFR)
- So-called ‘Access Card’
worse than Australia Card (June 13 2006)
- National ID Card Proposals: Spot
the Difference? Comparison chart (June 13 2006)
- What does Joe Hockey have to hide? (May
25 2006)
- ID card flaws in budget strategy (8 May 2006)
- Will the real ID card please stand up?
- the 'Smart' card (28 April 2006)
- Privacy left off the prescription (SMH,
6 Apr 2006)
- Hunter patients' privacy at risk (21 Mar 2006)
- Manly Pub's Storage of Drivers' Licence Details
(21 Mar 2006)
- Why Australia Card Mark II is still a dumb
idea (Aust. Policy Online, 27 Jan 2006), original
here
- Bigger Brother signals the death of financial
privacy (19 Dec 2005)
- Big Brother Award-Winners Announced
(8 Nov 2005)
- Shortlist for the Big Brother Awards
Announced (3 Nov 2005)
- Open Letter to Coalition MPs re a National
Id Scheme (28 July 2005)
- Health records - One Big Database,
One Bad Idea? (28 June 2005)
- Census - Big Brother to watch the Days
of our Lives? (8 June 2005)
- The politics of privacy - political
donations: privacy or secrecy? (24 May 2005)
- NSW Workplace Surveillance Bill
- no relief from snooping bosses (17 May 2005)
- NSW Photo ID Card - NSW Govt trampling
on privacy and freedom (29 April 2005)
- Article in AFR re ePassport Security
(19 April 2005)
- Letter in AFR re ePassport Security (14 April
2005)
- NSW Photo ID Card - No-one home at Privacy
NSW (8 April 2005)
- NSW Photo ID Card - Bill passes Lower House
(6 April 2005)
- NSW Photo ID Card (22 March 2005)
- Surveillance Devices Bill 2004 (Cth) (25 January
2005)
- Document Verification System (21 January 2005)
- BBA Awards - Australia's worst privacy invaders
named and shamed (25 November 2004)
- Responses to A.P.F's Election Challenge (3 October
2004)
- Call for Big Brother Award Nominations
(8 September 2004)
- A.P.F. 's Election Challenge
(19 August 2004)
- Attorney-General Wins Privacy Lifetime Menace Award
(8 September 2003)
- Cameras in Mobile Phones (7 August 2003)
- Australian Privacy Foundation Announces
Big Brother Awards (23 June 2003)
- Howard Government Wins Global Award for Stupid
Security Campaign (9 April 2003)
- Australians Invited To Help Find The World's Most
Stupid Security (9 March 2003)
A Campaign For Fair Privacy Laws was conducted during the development of the Privacy Commissioner's National Principles for the Fair Handling of Personal Data during 1997 and 1998, and highlighted the utter inadequacy of self-regulatory arrangements. The Campaign included the following Media Releases:
- Government Move On Privacy Laws Welcomed(16 Dec 1998)
- Direct Marketing Code Exposes Govt's Failure To Protect Privacy (9 Nov 1998)
- Privacy Betrayal in N.S.W. (28 Sep 1998)
- OGIT Fails to Dispel Privacy Fears (6 May 1998)
- Privacy Legislation Still Needed (20 February 1998)
- Voluntary Code Leaves Privacy Exposed (19 August 1997)
Last Amended: 28 April 2013
by Roger Clarke
- Site Last Verified: 11 January 2009
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