JUDGMENTS
Use of CCTV footage to monitor employees
condoned
On 8 January 2020, the Victorian Civil and Administrative
Tribunal dismissed a complaint by a senior prison officer that the
use of CCTV footage showing him absent from his post for extended
periods of time amounted to a breach of Information Privacy
Principle 1.3: Kaliszewski v Department of Justice and
Community Safety (Human Rights) [2020] VCAT 27. IPP 1.3 states
that an organisation must take reasonable steps to ensure that an
individual is aware of certain matters, including the fact of
collection and the purposes for which the information is collected,
at or before the time (or, if that is not practicable, as soon as
practicable thereafter) the organisation collects personal
information about that individual from that individual. The
respondent had used the footage in connection with disciplinary
proceedings against the complainant. The complainant asserted that
the information had been unlawfully
