Kick in the teeth for ‘anonymous reviewers’
In Kabbabe v Google LLC [2020] FCA 126, the Court made a preliminary discovery order requiring Google to identify an ‘anonymous reviewer’ for a dentist’s defamation claim.
New NDIS Worker Screening Laws
Spent convictions may now be disclosed to and considered by certain Commonwealth, State and Territory agencies in determining a job seeker’s suitability to work with people with disability under the NDIS.
Case Note: Authorised Disclosures of Personal Information
In this case, the Federal Court held that the Department of Veterans’ Affairs did not breach the Information Privacy Principles in disclosing an individual’s personal information to their superior officer and ADF doctors.
Genomics and Privacy Law
A key challenge in genomic medicine is determining how Privacy laws affect the sharing of genomic and related health data for clinical care and research.
APP 6.2 and Responding to Adverse Public Comments
In May 2018 the OAIC determined that the disclosure of an individual’s personal information in response to their adverse public comments was permitted under APP 6.2
The EU’s new data protection framework – GDPR
On 25 May 2018, the European Union’s new data protection framework – the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) – took effect. Despite some similarities with the Privacy Act, many APP entities will need to implement new processes to be GDPR-compliant.
Information Sharing for Victorian ‘Authorised Hub Entities’
The Health Records Act 2001 (Vic) and the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic) have been amended to provide exceptions in relation to the collection of particular health and personal information under the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 (Vic).
New Victorian Public Sector Data Sharing Legislation
The Victorian Data Sharing Act 2017 (Vic) has introduced a new legal framework to facilitate the sharing of Victorian public sector data to improve policy-making whilst ensuring the privacy of the data.
Case Note: Privacy and the Health Privacy Principles
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found that the use of a person’s health information for the purpose of considering a request for clinical supervision and for the purpose of an intervention order proceeding did not interfere with the privacy of the applicant by breaching the Health Privacy Principles.
New data breach notification laws
The Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Act) has been amended by the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2017 (Cth) (the amending Act). The amending Act introduces a mandatory data breach notification regime where an ‘eligible data breach’ occurs. The amendments will commence on 23 February 2018, unless they are proclaimed to commence earlier.
