Publications & Links
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Annual Reports
Best Practice Guides and other guidelines
Brochures
- September 2003 - Your Privacy: Protecting Privacy in NSW [PDF]
Exemptions
Privacy Codes of Practice
Public Interest Directions
Fact Sheets
- Fact Sheet 7 - (PPIP Act)
Public Registers and the Internet
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- Fact Sheet 5 - (HRIP Act)
The Health Privacy Principles (HPPs)
Explained for members of the public
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- Fact Sheet 4 - (HRIP Act)
The Health Privacy Principles (HPPs)
Guidance for organisations
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- Fact Sheet 3 - (HRIP Act)
(Draft) Statutory Guidelines on Management, Training, Research and Third Party Collection
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- Fact Sheet 2 - (PPIP Act)
The Information Protection Principles - guidance for the public sector
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- Fact Sheet 1 - (PPIP Act)
The Information Protection Principles - explained for the general public
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Forms
Frequently Asked Questions
Media Releases
- 10 June 2004 Training on new health privacy law Media Release [Word]
- 21 August 2003 Launch of the Privacy Training Program Media Release [Word]
- 29 August 2007 Winner of international youth privacy competition [Word]
Need to Know
- Need to Know - No 3 March - May 2004
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- Need to Know - No 2 December 2003 - February 2004
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- Need to Know - No 1 December - November 2003
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- Privacy Newsletter - July 2003
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- Privacy Newsletter - April 2003
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- Privacy Newsletter - June 2002
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- Privacy Newsletter - December 2001
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Old Privacy Committee publications of interest
Policies and Protocols
(also see About us)
Privacy Essentials
A series of practical guides to help Privacy Contact Officers apply the PPIP Act in their organisation.
- Number 4 - Exemptions matrix [PDF]
- Number 3 - Checklist - Identifying privacy issues early [PDF]
- Number 2 - How to prepare for the HRIP Act [PDF]
- Community Language Privacy Notice (Privacy notice translated into 23 languages)
Privacy Training
Quarterly Report Statistics
Speeches & Presentations
- Privacy - Electronic Health Records
Presentation made by the Privacy Services Manager at the Ark Group Conference, "e-Heath: Transforming the Healthcare Landscape", Melbourne, 3 July - 2 August 2006. [DOC]
- Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002
Presentation by Natasha Mann, Legal and Policy Officer, to Sutherland Hospital, 16 March 2004. [Powerpoint Presentation]
- Overcoming the challenges of sharing information and records in the health industry
Presentation by Natasha Mann, Legal and Policy Officer, to the IIR Electronic Documents and Records Management Conference 2004, Melbourne, 26 February 2004. [Powerpoint Presentation]
- Privacy and records management in a digital age
Presentation made by the Deputy Privacy Commissioner for the Records Management Association of Australasia
at “The Future of Managing Records in a Standards Environment” 11 February 2004, Westin Hotel, Sydney. [PDF]
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- Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002
Presentation by Natasha Mann, Legal and Policy Officer, to the NSW FOI and Privacy Practitioners' Network Meeting, 20 November 2003. [Powerpoint Presentation]
- Privacy - the regulator's perspective: Challenges and Trends 2003
Presentation made by the Deputy Privacy Commissioner to the Government Lawyers CLE Convention, 9 September 2003. [DOC] [Powerpoint Presentation]
- Privacy - Implications for public sector agencies in NSW
Presentation made by the Deputy Privacy Commissioner to the Administrative Decisions Tribunal 5th Annual Members Professional Development Day, 5 September 2003. [DOC] [Powerpoint Presentation]
- Protecting the Privacy of Health Information in NSW
Presentation by Natasha Mann, Legal and Policy Officer and Michelle Johnson, Research and Policy Officer to the Baker and McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre "Legal Challenges in Cybermedicine and e-Health" Conference, 31 July 2003 [Powepoint Presentation].
- The Privacy Implications of the Revolution in Health Technologies
Privacy Commissioner's presentation to Australian Financial Review 5th Annual Health Conference, 28 February 2003 [DOC]
- Telling it like it is: Personal Information, Healthcare Providers and the Media
Address by the Privacy Commissioner to the Area Health Services Media Liaison Officers’ Privacy Training Day, 13 June 2002. [DOC]
- Justice: Now Open to Whom?
Privacy Commissioner's address to Judges' conference, 2 and 16 May 2002. Versions of this paper have appeared in the Law Society Journal, June 2002, Vol 40 (5) 51 andThe Judicial Review, 6 (1) 95. [DOC]
- Privacy – Update on State and Federal Privacy Laws
Presentation by Deputy Privacy Commissioner to Government Lawyers CLE Convention, 10 September 2002 [DOC]
- Electronic Surveillance in the Workplace: Concerns for Employees and Challenges for Privacy Advocates
Anna Johnston and Myra Cheng. Paper delivered by the Deputy Privacy Commissioner at the International Conference on Personal Data Protection Seoul, Korea, 28 November 2002. [DOC] Note: the Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 has since come into force on 6 October 2005.
Special Reports & Research Reports
Statutory Guidelines
Privacy NSW has developed four statutory guidelines under the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002. The statutory guidelines are not a plain English guide to the HRIP Act. They are legally binding documents that define the scope of particular exemptions in the health privacy principles. They describe how the exemption applies and what you need to do in order to comply with the exemption. They are as important as the exemption itself. They relate to the:
- use or disclosure of health information for the management of health services [PDF] or [Word],
- use or disclosure of health information for training purposes [PDF] or [Word],
- use or disclosure of health information for research purposes [PDF] or [Word], [HREC report form], and
- notification when collecting health information about a person from someone else [PDF] or [Word].
A Fact Sheet is available which explains the statutory guidelines in more detail.
Submissions & Position Papers
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| Submission by Privacy NSW in response to the Review of Privacy Discussion Paper of the Australian Law Reform Commission
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| Submission by Privacy NSW in response to the Review of Privacy Issues Paper of the Australian Law Reform Commission [Word] [PDF] |
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| Submission on the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Discussion Paper: Discrimination in Employment on the Basis of Criminal Records [Word] |
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| Submission by Privacy NSW to Australian Statistician on the Conduct of the 2006 Census [Word] |
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| Submission by Privacy NSW on the Review of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 [PDF][Word] |
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| Submission on the Australian Communications Authority Discussion Paper: Location Location Location: the future of location information to enhance the handling of emergency mobile phone calls [PDF][Word] |
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| Submission to Ministerial Inquiry into the Taxi Industry [PDF][Word] |
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| Submission on the Australian Government Discussion Paper on Information Privacy and Employee Records [PDF] [Word] |
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| Submission on the Review of the Mental Health Act 1990, Discussion Paper 1: Carers and Information Sharing [PDF] [Word] |
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| Submission on the proposed revision of the Passports Act 1938 (Cth) [PDF] [Word] |
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| Submission on the review of the State Records Act [PDF] [Word] |
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| Submission to the Office of Fair Trading in relation to the proposed Property, Stock and Business Agents Amendment (Tenancy Databases Regulation 2004) [PDF] [Word] |
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| Submission to the Ministerial Council on Consumer Affairs (MCCA) and the Standing Committee of Attorney General (SCAG) on the public issues paper Residential Tenancy Databases [PDF] [Word] |
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| .Submission on the Discussion Paper Building Consumer Sovereignty in Electronic Commerce: A best practice model for business. [PDF] [Word] |
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| Submission in response to an invitation to comment by the Director General, Attorney General's Department on the Workplace Video Surveillance Act Review. [PDF] [Word] |
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| Submission to the Joint Working Group on National Investigation Powers on behalf of the Leaders Summit on Terrorism and Multijurisdictional Crime on Cross border investigative powers for law enforcement. [PDF] [Word] |
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| Submission to the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council (AHMAC) National Health Privacy Working Group in relation to the Draft National Health Privacy Code. [PDF] [Word] |
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| Supplementary submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission / Australian Health Ethics Committee Joint Inquiry into the Protection of Human Genetic Information [Word] |
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| Submission to NSW Law Reform Commission in relation to their Report 98: Surveillance. [PDF] [Word] Read the Law Reform Commission's Report here. |
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| Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission / Australian Health Ethics Committee Joint Inquiry into the Protection of Human Genetic Information [Word |
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User Manuals
- A Short Guide to the Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 [Word] (produced by the Legislation & Policy Division of the NSW Attorney General's Department, who administer the WS Act)
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