Despite being involved in exposing, probing and researching as part of our investigative profession, this website supports robust privacy rights and protection. We do not condone illegal breaches of an individual's privacy in the course of investigating a case.
We also do not condone the disregard of some government agencies of the individual's right to privacy.
These links will assist you about your legal rights to privacy in Australia and generally on the internet.
Note
New and more detailed information has come to hand since the text below has been published on our site. In particular, the office of the federal Privacy Commissioner has responded with some detailed explanations about the effects of the privacy law on the work of private investigators.
Furthermore, the Australian Law Reform Commission has released it's final report into the Privacy Act and privacy objectives in Australia. Its recommendations are very likely to be wholly or partly adopted by federal government through changes in legislation and policy. This means there will be a further, real impact of the laws on private investigators applying not only to privacy law itself, but areas such as surveillance and communication and telecommunication interception.
The ALRC's report is comprehensive and mind-boggling in its volume, but careful browsing of it should lead you to importat areas affecting private investigators.
Electronic Frontiers Australia
Federal Privacy Commissioner - Australia
Australian Law Reform Commission - download reports
Report by European Parliament on Echelon World Surveillance System - PDF file
Electronic Frontiers Foundation
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Global Internet Liberty Campaign
Office of the Privacy Commissioner Canada
New Zealand Privacy Commissioner
US Federal Trade Commission - privacy initiatives
Council of Europe - data protection
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