1 Olmstead v US, 1928

2 Hansard, Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (Senate) 19 October 1990

3 ibid,

4 Privacy Commission, 1991 Annual Report, p.46

5 The numbers in these quotes relate to sections of the tender documents

6 Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. Report on feasibility of a National ID scheme : The Tax File Number. Aust Gov Pub Service, October 1988

[7] Amendments to be Moved, Taxation Laws Amendment (Tax File Numbers) Bill 1988, December 1988,

[8] ss125A and 138A:

9 Roger Clarke, The resistible rise of the national personal data system, Software Law Journal, Chicago Ill, February 1992

10 D. Flaherty Protecting Privacy in Surveillance Societies University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill 1989 p. 393

11 LEAN Tender documents, 1991

12 Attorney General's Department 1991 Annual Report

13 Privacy Committee, Submission to ICAC, 1991

14 Roger Clarke, "The resistible rise of the national personal data system", Software Law Journal, Vol V, No 1, February 1992.

[15] Jan Holvast, Vulnerability of Information Society., in Managing Information Technology's Organisational Impact, ed Clarke R and Cameron J, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1991

16 This does not apply where privacy invasions arises from government initiatives, though the conservative parties are slow to react to even these threats.

17 Protecting privacy in Surveillance societies, p.385

18 Hansard, Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (Senate) 17 June 1991

19 See Roger Clarke, The resistible rise of the national personal data system, Software Law Journal, Chicago, February 1992

20 James Rule, The politics of Privacy, Mentor, New York, 1980

21 NSW Privacy Committee, Submission to the Independent Commission Against Corruption, June 1991, p.30.

22 Hansard, Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (Senate) 19 October 1990

23 19th October 1990

24 Roger Clarke, The resistible rise of the national personal data system, Software Law Journal, Chicago, February 1992

25 ibid p. 58

26 Privacy Commissioner, Meicare and Pharmaceutical Benefits Privacy Guidelines, May 1992

27 ibid

28 Hansard, Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (Senate) 19 October 1990

29 ibid

30 Privacy Commissioner; Annual reports 1990 and 1991