Privacy
4. Compliance with Privacy Laws
Authors: Staff Legal Eagle
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Last updated: 14 Aug 2015
- A range of organisations must ensure that they comply with the National Privacy Principles and other privacy law.
- In most cases the obligation to comply with Australian privacy law extends to:
- Australian government agencies; and
- all companies, businesses and not-for-profit organisations with an annual turnover of more than $3 million.
- In some cases small businesses having an annual turnover of less than $3 million are also required to comply with privacy law. These include:
- private sector health service providers such as:
- doctors;
- pharmacists;
- weight loss clinics and gyms;
- private hospitals;
- complementary therapists;
- day surgeries other typical health service providers; and
- chiropractors and naturopaths;
- companies that buy or sell personal information;
- credit reporting agencies;
- service providers under a Commonwealth contract; and
- some employee associations registered under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 (Cth).
- The Australian privacy law also covers individuals who are responsible for handling:
- credit reporting information;
- personal information contained on the Personal Property Securities Register;
- ehealth records;
- tax file numbers; and
- past criminal conviction information.
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