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MEDIA ENQUIRIES should be directed as follows:

Submissions to Parliamentary Committees, etc.:

Chair, Policy Committee - Nigel Waters, (02) 4981 0828 or 0407 230 342

All Other Matters:

Chair – Roger Clarke, (02) 6288 1472

Vice-Chair - David Vaile, 0414 731 249

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.

Here are RECENT MEDIA RELEASES and related materials issued by the APF:

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

Earlier Media Releases are indexed below.

Here are RECENT MEDIA REPORTS that refer to the APF:

Here are EARLIER MEDIA RELEASES and related materials issued by the APF:

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)

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