Selected APF Papers Sorted by Jurisdiction

This document lists papers sorted into the jurisdictions to which they are relevant.

Submissions regarding a Non-Government matter appear under the appropriate Non-Government heading, even if they were made to a Federal, State or Territory Parliament or Government Agency.

This index reflects work undertaken by the APF up to 31 December 2009.

The index is comprehensive since 2002. It also includes key documents dating back to 1987,
and papers by APF's sibling organisation the Australian Privacy Charter Council (1994-2002).

See also the primary Papers index, which lists the papers in chronological order, most recent first. A companion document lists them by topic-areas. See also the Campaigns pages.

Contents

For specific topics, see also the index to policy-areas. This applies in particular to APF Policy Statements on such matters as Visual Surveillance and CCTV, which are applicable to every category in this index.

N.S.W.

• Data Linkage between NSW Police and Medicare, Letter to Clth Privacy Commissioner (5 October 2009)
• The Healthelink Scheme, Public Statement (28 September 2009)
• Evaluation of the Healthelink Records Pilot, Submission to NSW Health Minister Della Bosca (December 2008)
• Privacy Legislation in New South Wales, Submission to N.S.W. Law Reform Commission re Consultation Paper 3 (October 2008)
• Anonymous Use of Public Roads and Public Transport, Letter to Privacy and Human Rights Commissioners (September 2008), and a holding reply from NSWPC (October 2008)
• N.S.W. Government Travel Smartcard, Letter to the N.S.W. Minister for Transport (September 2008)
• Letter of Welcome, to the incoming NSW Privacy Commissioner, Judge Ken Taylor (January 2008)
• Letter to Parties re NSW Election regarding their Privacy Platform (March 2007)
• Submission to NSW Ombudsman re 'Lockdown powers' Issues Paper, Dec 2006 (February 2007)
• Letter to NSW Premier Iemma re appointment of a Privacy Commissioner (January 2007)
• NSW Education Bill – an unjustified threat to privacy: letters to Minister and Shadow Minister (14 November 2006)
• Access to Court Records, to N.S.W. A/G's (July 2006)
• Letter to the NSW Privacy Commissioner (December 2005)
• Reply from the NSW Privacy Commissioner (December 2005)
• The Documents that the NSW Privacy Commissioner says don't need to remain publicly available (but we do), safely stored on the Wayback Machine:
  • A Guide to the Workplace Video Surveillance Act 1998 (NSW) (February 2002), mirrored here
  • Position Paper on the Health Records & Information Privacy Bill 2002 (June 2002), mirrored here
  • Position Paper on Child Offenders (July 2002), mirrored here
  • The Tape Recording of Council Meetings (May 2004), mirrored here
• Analysis of NSW Workplace Surveillance Bill (May 2005)
• NSW Minister for Education & Training re Student ID Card Proposal (April 2005)
• The NSW Photo Card Bill ‚ How To Fix It (March 2005)
• 31 Questions for the NSW Minister for Roads about the Photo Card Bill 2004 (February 2005)
• Review of the NSW Photo Card Bill 2004 (February 2005)
• NSW Minister for Roads - 2nd Letter re Drivers' Licence Photo Card Bill 2004 (February 2005)
• N.S.W. Police re Numberplate Recognition Technology (January 2005)
• Letter to the Editor re Beach Cameras (January 2005)
• NSW Parliamentarians re State Records Amendment Bill 2004 (October 2004)
• N.S.W. Attorney-General re Workplace Surveillance Bill (August 2004)
• Subsequent Correspondence with NSW Attorney-General's Dept (19 May 2004)
• Summary of Submission to NSW Attorney-General's Dept re Review of NSW Privacy Act (17 May 2004)
• Submission to NSW Attorney-General's Dept re Review of NSW Privacy Act (17 May 2004)
• NSW Health re Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002: Draft Statutory Guidelines (November 2003)
• Letter to the Opposition and Cross-Benches re the Privacy and Personal Information Protection (Amendment) Bill (NSW), to disestablish the 28-year-old N.S.W. Privacy Commission and in other respects weaken privacy protections (November 2003)
• Letter to the NSW Electoral Commissioner (May 2003)
• Letter to N.S.W. Liberal Party re Toll Booths (February 2003)
• N.S.W. Office of State Revenue on Review of N.S.W. Fines Act (June 2002)
• Proposed Code of Practice for disclosures of personal information outside New South Wales, Privacy NSW (May 2001 - APCC)
• Submission to a Select Committee of the N.S.W. Parliament on the N.S.W. Privacy and Data Protection Bill 1994 (30 June 1994)

Victoria

• Disclosure of Personal Data by Victoria Police – submission to the Victorian Privacy Commissioner (8 December 2009), and the OVPC's Media Release (later on 8 December 2009)
• Disclosure of Personal Data by Victoria Police – submission to the Victorian Commissioner for Law Enforcement Data Security (8 December 2009), and the Commissioner's evasive 'reply' (14 December 2009)
• Disclosure of Personal Data by Victoria Police – submission to the Federal Privacy Commissioner (8 December 2009), and further submission (9 December 2009)
• Victoria's Whole of Health ICT Strategy, Letter to the Minister (October 2008)
• Anonymous Use of Public Roads and Public Transport, Letter to Privacy and Human Rights Commissioners (September 2008)
• Letter to Victorian Premier Bracks re appointment of a Privacy Commissioner (January 2007)
• Victorian Privacy Commissioner re Privacy Impact Assessment Guidelines (February 2005)
• Letter to Victorian Police re Strategies for Handling Organised Crime (December 2004)
• Vic Law Reform Commission re Workplace Privacy Options Paper (November 2004)
• Submission re the Victorian Law Reform Commission's Issues Paper: "Workplace Privacy" (January 2003)
• Submission to Victorian Privacy Commissioner's Inquiry on Building Permit information (March 2002 - APCC)
• Victorian Data Protection Bill Discussion Paper (January 1999 - APCC) (Victorian Bill 99.doc)
• Victorian Data Protection Advisory Council (October 1996 - APCC) (Mvicsb1.doc)

Queensland

• Queensland Driver's Licence, further letter to Qld Premier (June 2008), and the reply (November 2008)
• Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), Verbal Evidence to Queensland Parltry Travelsafe C'tee - pp. 10-16 (March 2008)
• Biometrics of Visitors to Queensland Correctional Centres, Letter to Qld Minister for Police (March 2008)
• Queensland Driver's Licence, Letter to Qld Premier (March 2008), and the Premier's response (May 2008)
• Automatic Number Plate Recognition Technology (ANPR), to the Queensland Parliamentary Travelsafe Committee (January 2008)
• Biometrics of Visitors to Queensland Correctional Centres, to Qld Minister for Police (October 2007), and the Minister's Reply, p. 1 and p. 2 (November 2007)
• Submission re Review of the Queensland Club Industry Privacy Code (October 2005)
• Transcript of Evidence to Qld Crime and Misconduct Commission re: Police Radio Communications Access (29 July 2004)
• Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission re: Police Radio Communications Access (June 2004)
• Submission to Queensland Transport re the proposed Smartcard-based Driver's Licence (November 2003)

W.A.

S.A.

• Anonymous Use of the Adelaide Public Transport System, Letter to the S.A. Transport Minister (October 2008)
• Demands for the Identity of Library Users, to the State Library of S.A. (January 2008)
• Submission re the South Australian Criminal Law Consolidation (Identity Theft) Amendment Bill 2003 (August 2003)

Tasmania

• Letter to the Tasmanian Ombudsman (December 2005)

A.C.T.

• Anonymous Use of Public Roads and Public Transport, Letter to Privacy and Human Rights Commissioners (September 2008)
• Election Challenge – A.C.T. (September 2008)
• RFID-Tagging in the new ACT Prison, submission to ACT Corrective Services Minister (March 2008), and the Minister's response (April 2008)
• Publication of CCTV Photos of Passers-By, to AFP and The Canberra Times (December 2007), and reply from the AFP (April 2008)
• Swipe Cards in ACT Schools, to ACT Minister for Education (September 2007)
• RFID Tagging of Prisoners, submission to A.C.T. Human Rights Commissioner (August 2007), and the Commission's response (December 2007)
• RFID-Tagging in the new ACT Prison, submission to ACT Corrective Services Minister (July 2007), and the Minister's response (August 2007)
• Terrorism (Extraordinary Temporary Powers) Bill 2005, to ACT Government (January 2006)
• Letter to the Federal Privacy Commissioner re the ACT Government (December 2005)

N.T.

• Misleading Government Claims re N.T. eHealth Implementation, Letter to the Editor of The Australian (September 2008)

Private Sector – For Profit

This section is concerned with privacy-intrusive actions by corporations, and by industry associations that represent their interests. For specific topics, see also the index to policy-areas.

• eHealth Data and Health Identifiers, Policy Statement (28 August 2009)
• eHealth Care Data Breach, Policy Statement (28 August 2009)
• Access to Share Registers, to Clth Treasury (21 July 2009)
• 'Nurses paid to scout for Vioxx drug firm', to OFPC (May 2009)
• Medical Director and AsteRx data, to OFPC (May 2009), and reply (May 2005)
• Review of Consumer-related Industry Code Processes, to the Dept of Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy (May 2009)
• Re Mobile Premium Services (MPS) Code and Guideline, joint NGO Letters to ACMA, ACCC, and The Minister (March 2009)
• ALRC Report Part H – Health, Submission to Clth PM & C (February 2009)
• Fair Work Bill, Submission to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee (February 2009)
• Personal Property Securities Bill, Evidence to the Senate Legal & Constitutional C'tee (January 2009), mirrored here
• Enforcement of the Do Not Call Register, Policy Update (October 2008)
• Identity Scanning by Registered Clubs, Policy Statement (September 2008)
• Google StreetView, Policy Statement (August 2008)
• Re Communications Alliance's lack of attention to privacy, APF Letter (9 June 2008), CA's Reply (19 June 2008), and APF's Further Letter (30 June 2008)
• Workplace Email, Policy Statement (April 2008)
• Google StreetView, Policy Statement (April 2008)
• The State of Media Freedom, 2nd submission to ‘Australia’s Right to Know’ Coalition (October 2007)
• Unsolicited Commercial Faxes or ‘Fax Spam’, to DCITA (30 August 2007)
• Scanning of Identification Documents, submission to Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner (August 2007)
• The State of Media Freedom, submission to ‘Australia’s Right to Know’ Coalition (August 2007)
• Use of IPND information to provide Location Dependent Carriage Services (LDCS), submission to DCITA (August 2007)
• Tenancy Database Regulations, submission to Cth AGs re Draft Privacy (Private Sector) Amendment Regs (June 2007)
• EFTS Code Review, submission to ASIC (May 2007)
• Draft Telecommunications (Do Not Call Register) (Telemarketing and Research Calls) Industry Standard Variation 2007: Proposed ‘Sunday call’ variation, Submission to ACMA (May 2007)
• Further Dilution of the Do Not Call Register, Submission to ACMA (13 April 2007)
• Credit Reporting Provisions, ALRC Issues Paper No. 32 (March 2007)
• Access Card: Emergency Medical Info (Discussion Paper #2), to Access Card Taskforce (March 2007)
• Submission to NeHTA re UHI Blueprint (March 2007)
• Draft Consumer Privacy Code of Practice on RFID in Retail (March 2007)
• IPND Scheme and Legislative Instruments, to ACMA and DCITA (March 2007)
• Letter to Privacy Commissioner re SWIFT Complaint of Jul/Oct 2006 (February 2007)
• Subm. to ALRC privacy review (February 2007)
• Breach of Privacy Act by Australian Financial Institutions (through SWIFT), to Privacy Commissioner (October 2006)
• Market and Social Research Privacy Code, to AMSRO (October 2006)
• Calling Number Display, with CTN, to Communications Alliance (September 2006)
• Proposed Telemarketing Standard, to ACMA (September 2006)
• Submission to national ID card ('Access Card') task force, with covering letter (July 2006)
• SWIFT - disclosures of Australians' financial information without warrant to the USA, to Privacy Commissioner (July 2006)
• Do Not Call Register Bill 2006, to a Senate Committee (June 2006)
• Charging for unlisted numbers (Silent lines), to OFPC, TIO, ACMA and ACCC (April 2006)
• Identity checks for pre-paid mobile phones, to ACMA (April 2006)
• Ethical Conduct in Human Research, to NH&MRC (March 2006)
• Genetic Testing Policy of the Investment and Financial Services Association Ltd (IFSA), to ACCC (March 2006)
• Costs of Consumer Codes, to ACMA (February 2006)
• Review of the Spam Act, to DCITA (February 2006)
• Application to the ACCC re the ADMA Code (December 2005)
• Submission re a Do-Not-Call Register, to DoCITA (November 2005)
• Submission to ACIF re the Code for the Handling of Life Threatening and Unwelcome Calls (November 2005)
• Submission to the Human Gene Patents and Genetic Testing Advisory Group (November 2005)
• Submission re ACMA Consultation Paper: Disclosure of CLI to 190 Service Providers (October 2005)
• 'E-tags are another example of surveillance by stealth' (SMH Ope-Ed Piece by Chair Anna Johnston, 25 August 2005)
• ACMA re Integrated Public Number Database (IPND) (31 July 2005)
• HREOC re Employment Discrimination based on Criminal Records (February 2005)
• Aust Communications Authority: Regulatory Issues re VoIP (January 2005)
• Review of the Private Sector Provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (December 2004)
• ACIF re Unfair Consumer Contracts (November 2004)
• Summary of Responses to APF's Election Challenge to Political Parties, including the ALP, Democrats and Liberals (October 2004)
• APF's Election Challenge to Political Parties (August 2004)
• Google GMail Service - Letter to Federal Privacy Commissioner (23 April 2004)
• Clth Attorney-General re Employee Records (16 April 2004)
• Submission to the Australian Casino Association re its draft Privacy Code (May 2003)
• Submission to the OFPC on draft Information Sheet: "Taking reasonable steps ...." (January 2003)
• Submission to OFPC on draft Information Sheet: Questions and Answers about Privacy and Personal Information that is Publicly Available (December 2002)
• Submission to OFPC on Consultation Paper on Privacy - Collection of Publicly Available Personal Information (September 2002)
• Letter to Federal Privacy Commissioner (jointly by APCC, APF and ACA) concerning consultation on draft Codes of Practice. (February 2002 - APCC)
• Submission to Internet Industry Association on the IIA draft Privacy Code of Practice (October 2001 - APCC)
• Draft NPP Guidelines, Privacy Commissioner (July 2001 - APCC)
• Code Development Guidelines, Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner (June 2001 - APCC) (Word97 document, with revision-markings)
• Inquiry into the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000 by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (August 2000)
• Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee re Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000 (filename Submission Senate Aug 00) (August 2000 - APCC)
• House of Representatives Committee Inquiry re the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000 (May 2000 - APCC) (Cwth May 00.doc)
• Proposed National Privacy Legislation (January 2000 - APCC) (CwthJan00.doc)
• Proposed legislation for the protection of privacy in the private sector (October 1999 - APCC) (CwthSept99.doc)
• Senate Select Committee on Information Technology Inquiry into Self-Regulation (Senate IT Inquiry.doc) (August 1998)
• Senate Legal & Constitutional References Committee's Privacy Inquiry (June 1998 - APCC) (Senate Privacy Inquiry.doc)
• Financial System Inquiry (January 1997 - APCC) (Fsisb2.doc)
• Financial System Inquiry (the Ralph Review) (October 1996 - APCC) (Fsisb1.doc)
• National Childcare Accreditation Council (NCAC) (30 January 1994)
• Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Banking, Finance and Public Administration's Inquiry into Fraud on the Commonwealth (8 July 1992)

Private Sector – Not For Profit

This section is concerned with privacy-invasive behaviours of incorporated associations, charities, etc., but excluding industry associations whose function is to represent the interests of for-profit businesses. For specific topics, see also the index to policy-areas.

• eHealth Data and Health Identifiers, Policy Statement (28 August 2009)
• eHealth Care Data Breach, Policy Statement (28 August 2009)
• Access to Share Registers, to Clth Treasury (21 July 2009)
• National Registration of Health Workers, to Senate Community Affairs Committee (April 2009)
• Electronic Transfer of Pathology Data, to NEHTA (April 2009)
• Policy Statement re Privacy and the Media (March 2009)
• Disclosure of Genetic Information Without Consent, Submission to NHMRC (March 2009)
• Heart Foundation 2008 ‘Survey’, Letter to the National President, Bruce Carter (November 2008)
• Enforcement of the Do Not Call Register, Policy Update (October 2008)
• Identity Scanning by Registered Clubs, Policy Statement (September 2008)
• Unsolicited Commercial Faxes or ‘Fax Spam’, to DCITA (30 August 2007)
• Scanning of Identification Documents, submission to Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner (August 2007)
• Draft Telecommunications (Do Not Call Register) (Telemarketing and Research Calls) Industry Standard Variation 2007: Proposed ‘Sunday call’ variation, Submission to ACMA (May 2007)
• Market and Social Research Privacy Code, to AMSRO (October 2006)
• HREOC re Employment Discrimination based on Criminal Records (February 2005)
• Submission to OFPC on Consultation Paper on Privacy - Collection of Publicly Available Personal Information (September 2002)
• National Childcare Accreditation Council (NCAC) (30 January 1994)

Individual

This section is concerned with actions by individuals that intrude on the privacy of others. For specific topics, see also the index to policy-areas.

• Policy Statement re Privacy and the Media (March 2009)
• Tenancy Database Regulations, submission to Cth AGs re Draft Privacy (Private Sector) Amendment Regs (June 2007)
• Google GMail Service - Letter to Federal Privacy Commissioner (23 April 2004)
• Submission to OFPC on Consultation Paper on Privacy - Collection of Publicly Available Personal Information (September 2002)

Federal Public Sector

This section is concerned with privacy-invasive behaviour by the Commonwealth government. A vast amount of the APF's efforts have had to be spent in this area, partly because of the inherently privacy-invasive nature of some of what government agencies do, but particularly because of the very strong orientation of senior government executives towards central planning and social control, and wilful avoidance of recognising the importance of privacy.

So enormous is the range of issues that the APF has had to deal with that it is of little value to list papers here. Instead, use the index to policy-areas to find relevant documents.

Trans-Jurisdictional and Trans-Border

• Cross Border Data Transfers, Submission to Dept of Prime Minister & Cabinet (30 November 2009)
• Privacy Principles & Interstate Disclosure – GQ v NSW DET [2008] NSWADT 3191, Letters to NSW Privacy Commissioner & ors. (January 2009)
• Letter to Privacy Commissioner re SWIFT Complaint of Jul/Oct 2006 (February 2007)
• Breach of Privacy Act by Australian Financial Institutions (through SWIFT), to Privacy Commissioner (October 2006)
• SWIFT - disclosures of Australians' financial information without warrant to the USA, to Privacy Commissioner (July 2006)

International

• Global Privacy Standards for a Global World, Signatory to International Declaration (14 October 2009), mirrored here
• Secret Provisions of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) Must be Made Public, Sign-on to an international movement (September 2008)
• Re the OECD Ministerial Meeting on The Future of the Internet Economy, Commentary, and Letter to the Minister for Broadband etc. (June 2008)
• Report on Discussions re the APEC Privacy Initiative (February 2008)
• Declaration of Civil Society Organizations on the Role of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, to the Commissioners, in Montréal (25 September 2007)
• Extradition Law and Practice, to Attorney-General's Dept (April 2006)
• Signon to International Public Interest Movement Request to Google to Suspend Gmail (24 April 2004)
• Letter to the E.U. regarding misleading assurances by the Australian Government re the protection of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data, and detailed letter to the Attorney-General (5 April 2004)
• Recommendations for Improvements to APEC Privacy Principles [HTML](19 March 2004)

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