KEY
TAKEAWAYS
Privacy and Confidentiality Act 1988 is actually called
the Privacy Act 1988 (Commonwealth), which promotes and protects
individual privacy and confidentiality. It also regulates
Australia's government agencies and organisations as to how
they deal with personal information. If a privacy principle is
breached by Australian Government agencies or some private sector
businesses or organisations, there are a range of remedies
available to protect individual confidentiality, outlined in this
article.
SUMMARY
The Privacy Act governs how individual's personal
information is dealt with. Individual's personal
information is protected to an extent which empowers you to know
why your personal information is being collected, used and who it
will be disclosed to; gives you the discretion to choose to not be
identified; allows you access to your personal information (i.e.
health information); allows you to cease receiving unwanted
marketing; allows you to
