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The Australian Privacy Foundation Newsletter of 4 May 2024 APF Board members continue their efforts to influence policy in privacy-sensitive ways. The load continues to be high, and we need more contributors. That way we can deepen, but also to diversify, the insights that we bring to environmental scanning, evidence-gathering, analysis and the presentation of… Read More
4.5.2024 06:15APF Newsletter – 4 May 2024Alysson Watson, Associate lecturer in journalism, University of Newcastle The family of Ash Good, one of the Bondi stabbing victims and the mother of the nine-month-baby who was also stabbed, issued a plea overnight for media to stop reproducing photos of Ash, her partner and their baby without consent. Good, 38, was an osteopath who… Read More
17.4.2024 03:07Digital ‘death knocks’: is it fair game for journalists to mine social media profiles of victims and their families?Margarita Vladimirova, PhD in Privacy Law and Facial Recognition Technology, Deakin University The morning started with a message from a friend: “I used your photos to train my local version of Midjourney. I hope you don’t mind”, followed up with generated pictures of me wearing a flirty steampunk costume. I did in fact mind. I… Read More
6.3.2024 08:46Your face for sale: anyone can legally gather and market your facial data without explicit consentKatharine Kemp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney Australian consumers don’t understand how companies – including data brokers – track, target and profile them. This is revealed in new research on consumer understanding of privacy terms, released by the non-profit Consumer Policy Research Centre and UNSW Sydney today. Our report also reveals… Read More
6.3.2024 08:4170% of Australians don’t feel in control of their data as companies hide behind meaningless privacy termsA suite of recent cybersecurity data breaches highlight an urgent need to overhaul how companies and government agencies handle our data. But these incidents pose particular risks to victim-survivors of domestic violence. The onus is on service providers – such as utilities, telcos, internet companies and government agencies – to ensure they don’t risk the safety of their most vulnerable customers by being careless with their data. Read More
5.12.2023 12:32For domestic violence victim-survivors, a data or privacy breach can be extraordinarily dangerousIn collaboration with the SurfRider Foundation Surf Coast Branch, Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) Vice-Chair Dr Monique Mann, and APF Surveillance Committee member Dr Ian Warren, have prepared a report that examines a SurfCam that is owned and operated by Swellnet PTY LTD, and is fixed to a private residence on the cliffs overlooking the Bells Beach Surfing Recreational Reserve (BBSRR) on the Surf Coast of Victoria. SurfCams provide surfers with the ability to remotely view surfing conditions and decide whether, when, and where to go surfing. They have the potential to create impacts across social, environmental, economic, and human rights domains. This analysis shows where legal and regulatory reform could occur to regulate the surveillance of public land for private commercial gain. We outline recommendations and proposals for removal of the camera, regulatory reform, and future research. Read More
8.11.2023 08:45Surfveillance: Swellnet’s SurfCam at Winki PopAPF continues its work influencing policy wherever it can. We seek suitable balances between the privacy interest, on the one hand, and other needs of individuals, communities and society as a whole. However, APF needs your assistance to maintain its momentum. Renewing your membership is helpful. To renew, direct deposit to the APF bank account… Read More
24.7.2023 05:23APF’s Occasional Newsletter – July 2023Fertility apps collect deeply sensitive data about consumers’ sex lives, health, emotional states and menstrual cycles. And many of them are intended for use by children as young as 13. An analysis by UNSW's Katharine Kemp has uncovered a number of concerning practices by these apps including: confusing and misleading privacy messages, a lack of choice in how data are used, inadequate de-identification measures when data are shared with other organisations, and retention of data for years even after a consumer stops using the app, exposing them to unnecessary risk from potential data breaches. Read More
22.3.2023 11:24Popular fertility apps are engaging in widespread misuse of data, including on sex, periods and pregnancyIn the recently released Privacy Act Review Report, the Attorney-General’s Department makes numerous important proposals that could see the legislation, enacted in 1988, begin to catch up to leading privacy laws globally. However, the report’s proposals on targeted advertising don’t properly address the power imbalance between companies and consumers. Instead, they largely accept a status quo that sacrifices consumer privacy to the demands of online targeted ad businesses. Read More
21.2.2023 03:36Proposed privacy reforms could help Australia play catch-up with other nations. But they fail to tackle targeted adsAttorney-General Mark Dreyfus yesterday released a report with 30 proposals for updating Australia’s privacy regime. The proposals are practical, necessary and overdue. However, they are just proposals, which have been made several times in the past before disappearing into the “too hard basket” of the Australian, state and territory governments. We can expect to see lots of noise about specific proposals and hope the Albanese government (copied by state/territory counterparts) gives us the legislation we need. Read More
17.2.2023 05:51Government’s privacy review has some strong recommendations – now we really need actionThis may be the wrong place but here goes. Except for very few restricted conditions any release of private data should be at a restricted disclosure rate. If data was released at say a maximum of 10,000 records a day a casual hacker would need to be online for 2.7 years to get 10m of data.
2.10.2022 12:11Comment on Optus says it needed to keep identity data for six years. But did it really? by AnonymousThank you for your information. How and where is the Government asking the public for feedback? I certainly would have liked to provide some feedback on these issues.
31.10.2021 22:58Comment on The government wants to expand the ‘digital identity’ system that lets Australians access services. There are many potential pitfalls by B ...Our medical records are private and should stay that way. No one should have access to them without our permission
24.10.2021 00:06Comment on Too late? The new normal, State government slurps up all patient information. by Mary McnamaraAre Australians open minded or gutless to challenge this?
22.8.2021 04:51Comment on APF’s Position on the 2021 Census by CenisaneThank you for confirming your stance on the ABS operations and their Census. It is a perpetually worsening assault on the privacy of ordinary Australians, and a total disgrace for the governments that allow this to happen.
17.8.2021 03:23Comment on APF’s Position on the 2021 Census by AnonymousAnd in Queensland, from 9 July, people won't be able to enter grocery shops and supermarkets to buy food unless using Check In app or handing over their personal details to the shop. How far is this surveillance in the name of covid going to go? And, more importantly, will it be completely removed when the pandemic is over?
30.6.2021 01:48Comment on Police debacle leaves the McGowan government battling to rebuild public trust in the SafeWA app by JudeThank you for publishing this important information. It looks like even an ill person has to stay alert, read all the fine print, and fight for their privacy when attending doctors or hospitals.
2.6.2021 05:06Comment on Commonwealth Health Department going for data grab under cover of COVID by EmilI will download this App if proper and open consultation takes place and if missing information is released. "This could be avoided by proper and open consultation, which APF joins many others in calling for, starting with the provision of the missing information."
27.4.2020 03:34Comment on How [NOT] to earn public trust for the Contact Tracing App? by Helen ReaYou can join an online petition against MHR at: https://www.change.org/p/greg-hunt-mp-make-my-health-record-opt-in 52,000 people has signed so far. You can also protest against MHR by going directly to Health Minister Greg Hunt at: email: greg.hunt.mp@aph.com.au or fax: (02) 6273 7330
10.11.2018 22:32Comment on The opt-out period should be extended and My Health Record properly evaluated by JaneThankyou for all the work you're doing to bring attention to this. They don't understand that medical records can harm, not just help. There are a few things I'm sitting here wishing I had never seen a doctor about. And for the last few years at least, I've been thinking about privacy every time I've been in my doctor's office. I can't help it, the thought is always there, and at the front of my mind, not the back. It shouldn't be like that.
4.8.2018 17:11Comment on Law enforcement access to My Health Record data by Jane