Its annual report time again.
The Victorian Privacy Commissioner is the first off the block. The report prepared by the Commissioner, Paul Chadwick prior to his departure after 5 years in office, includes some salutary comments about privacy, described by Chadwick as the "quietest of our freedoms". For this reason he says "Ministers, Parliament, bureaucrats and media - all of whom have influence in the way the community is governed - need to listen for privacy with care".The comments in the Commissioner's overview (page 3) about three major privacy challenges - the proposed Commonwealth Access Card, cameras that watch and "think" and genetic information - should alert all of us to the need to follow these issues closely.
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