Surveillance Capitalism Interview
Hear ALRC Principal Legal Officer Micheil Paton speak about the ALRC report on “Serious Invasions of Privacy” with broadcaster Toby Halligan from Triple RRR radio.
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Read moreALRC submission: Exposure Draft Privacy Amendment (Notification of Serious Data Breaches) Bill 2015
Dear Sir/Madam,ALRC Submission: Exposure draft Privacy Amendment (Notification of Serious Data Breaches) Bill 2015I refer to the invitation for submissions on the exposure draft Privacy Amendment (Notification of Serious Data Breaches) Bill 2015 (the Bill).The Bill would amend the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) to insert a new pt IIIC, which would define when a ‘serious …
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Read moreALRC submission to Senate inquiry into ‘revenge porn’
Ms Sophie DunstoneCommittee SecretarySenate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional AffairsPO Box 6100Parliament HouseCanberra ACT 260014 January 2016Dear Ms Dunstone,Submission to inquiry into so-called ‘revenge porn’The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the inquiry being conducted by the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs into so-called …
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Read moreALRC submission to Senate inquiry into ‘revenge porn’
Ms Sophie DunstoneCommittee SecretarySenate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional AffairsPO Box 6100Parliament HouseCanberra ACT 260014 January 2016Dear Ms Dunstone,Submission to inquiry into so-called ‘revenge porn’The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the inquiry being conducted by the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs into so-called …
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Read moreSubmission to Senate Inquiry into Remedies for the Serious Invasion of Privacy in NSW
Committee ChairThe Hon Natasha Maclaren-Jones MLCNSW Legislative Council Standing Committee on Law and JusticeParliament HouseMacquarie Street12 August 2015Dear Ms Maclaren-Jones,Submission to Inquiry into Remedies for the Serious Invasion of Privacy in New South WalesThe Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to this Inquiry into remedies for the serious invasion …
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Read moreForgotten Freedoms Panel Session
ALRC Freedoms Inquiry, Forgotten Freedoms Panel Session, 19 June 2015, Professor Rosalind Croucher AM, President, Australian law Reform Commission[1]Why ‘forgotten’?This is a nicely alliterative title for our panel, but one is tempted to say that the very fact of having it suggests that nothing is forgotten ….What does the idea of ‘forgotten freedoms’ mean in this year of Magna …
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Read moreALRC responds to ‘No media experience? He’s the perfect choice’ (The Australian, 9 December 2014)
The Australian article by Chris Merrit states that in 2008 the ALRC “called for a new way of suing the media for invasions of privacy … [that] had no public interest defence nor a defence of truth”.While, the ALRC’s 2008 privacy report, For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice (ALRC Report 108), did not recommend a …
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Read moreReport into Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era released
The Australian Law Reform Commission’s Final Report, Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era (Report 123, 2014) was tabled in Parliament today and is now publicly available.The Terms of Reference for this Inquiry, required the ALRC to design a tort to deal with serious invasions of privacy in the digital era. In this Report, …
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Read moreFinal report tabled today!
Today our Final Report, Serious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era (Report 123) was tabled in Parliament. It is now publicly available.The Report and a Summary Report is available to freely download or purchase in hard copy from the ALRC website. The Report is also freely available as an ebook.ALRC recommendations do not automatically become law. The Australian Government decides whether to implement the …
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Read moreSerious Invasions of Privacy in the Digital Era (ALRC Report 123)
In this Inquiry the ALRC was asked to design a statutory cause of action for serious invasions of privacy, and also to consider other innovative ways in which law may reduce serious invasions of privacy in the digital era.This final report was tabled on 3 September 2014.A Summary Report is also available.
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