Smiler, you may be aware of the current major overhaul of the Privacy Act. The Australian Law Reform Commission have already flagged the gist of their recommendations to the Attorney-General (to be submitted end of May and tabled in Parlt. a few months later). There's a 1978-page Discussion Paper and there's a September 2007 media release ...
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".... the ALRC also is proposing a new system of data breach notification: “There is currently no requirement to notify individuals when there has been unauthorised access to their information, ... Where there is a real risk of serious harm to individuals, we say they must be notified.”
... Other key proposals include:
• introducing a new statutory cause of action where an individual’s reasonable expectation of privacy has been breached; ...
•expanding the enforcement powers of the Privacy Commissioner;
• imposing civil penalties for serious breaches of the Act; {END OF QUOTE}
See http://www.alrc.gov.au/media/2007/mr1207_privacy.html
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