Introduction
The Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Bill 2012
(Bill) was introduced into the Australian
Parliament on 23 May 2012. The Bill implements the major
legislative elements of the Australian Government's
first-stage response to the Australian Law Reform Commission
report, For Your Information: Australian Privacy Law and Practice.
Previously, the Government had released exposure drafts of
legislation to implement that response, including an exposure draft
of new Australian Privacy Principles.
The key amendments the Bill introduces to the Privacy Act 1988
(Cth) (Privacy Act) are as follows:
- repeal of the National Privacy Principles for the private
sector and Information Privacy Principles for the public sector,
which are replaced by a single set of 13 Australian Privacy
Principles (APPs) that will be applicable to both
Commonwealth agencies and private sector organisations (known as
APP entities). The APPs broadly follow the form
and
