DATA PROTECTION - AUSTRALIA: TAKING IT SERIOUSLY: AUSTRALIA’S NEW COMMITMENT TO DATA PROTECTION

✍ Scribed by Margaret Jackson

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 119 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0267-3649
• DOI: 10.1016/s0267-3649(00)88911-6

✦ Synopsis

This article outlines the most recent developments in Australia in respect of data protection legislation. The Federal Government has reversed an earlier decision not to legislate to extend data protection to the private sector. The draft provisions of the proposed Bill have now been released and are briefly discussed.