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If you use CCTV to detect and record crime, it is legitimate to provide copies to Police so they can investigate. If you have banned someone from the shop for suspected shoplifting, you might also...
Whether making an audio or visual recording of someone without telling them will breach the Privacy Act will depend on the circumstances in each case. In particular, it will depend on who is making...
If you post personal information about others as a private individual, you probably will not be breaching the Privacy Act. This is because the Privacy Act generally does not apply to domestic...
The Privacy Act doesn’t apply to the collection and reporting of news and current affairs, so we aren’t able to investigate complaints about the actions of newspapers and other news media. But the...
CCTV stands for closed circuit television. It is also known as video surveillance. If you are installing CCTV, you need to think about – and preferably document – what you are recording, why you are...
Yes, they can. Landlords and property managers have a lawful purpose to collect information about a rental property when they carry out a property inspection. The Privacy Act says an agency should...
Personal information is defined as information about a living individual, so there is no right to obtain information about a deceased person under the Privacy Act.However, there is an exception to...
In most cases, agencies will be entitled to provide parents or guardians with information about their child. Providing information to parents and guardians where this is one of (or is directly...
