Category Archives: Privacy

Privacy Law Reform

August 14, 2008 – 5:46 pm

I was interested to skim-read the ALRC’s recently released report on Privacy Laws (reported in The Age here). No, I can’t honestly claim to have read the entire thing, but I did read the executive summary and selected sections.
I can conclude from this that my blog posts indicate I am a fairly good representative of [...]

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Defamation and anonymous blogging

October 22, 2007 – 11:40 pm

Has anyone else ever put comments up in online forums, or in response to newspaper stories or blog posts? If you’re reading this post, I suspect that you might have been tempted to do so. You know the drill then. You are required to enter your name in a box headed “Name”, and then you [...]

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Facebook Freddi

August 16, 2007 – 12:26 am

I’ve recently become addicted to Facebook. It’s great. I’ve managed to get in touch with friends with whom I hadn’t spoken for almost 20 years, and to stay in better contact with others. Another friend of mine is less keen. “I’m really worried about the privacy issues”, she told me. Initially I wasn’t so concerned, [...]

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Privacy Act? Extreme Irritation Act, more like it…

May 16, 2007 – 8:01 pm

Right at the start of this blog I had a whinge about privacy laws. I’m going to have another one now. What’s the point of having a blog if you can’t have a vent on it?
Our energy accounts are both with the same company, and both in my husband’s name. I accidentally paid the money [...]

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Big Brother is watching you…

April 23, 2007 – 9:23 pm

“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.” (1984, George Orwell)
Apparently there has been privacy problems with Channel 10’s Big Brother website. Fans are able to sign up for [...]

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Do Not Call Register

June 16, 2006 – 1:45 pm

Some of you may recall my post on privacy legislation. I was doing a little hunting around, thinking, Surely I’m not the only one who is really irritated with these people calling me from call centres trying to get me to change phone providers?
Turns out that I’m not the only one by any means. [...]

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Privacy Legislation

May 1, 2006 – 5:12 pm

A while back, in a large storm, a tree fell on my parents’ house (on the roof over their bedroom, to be precise). My parents were not contactable, and therefore, I decided to ring the insurance company to try and get someone to take the tree off the roof and fix the hole.
“I’m sorry, we’re [...]

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