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Title: Your privacy - NSW Privacy Commission
About: Information on the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act NSW, criminal records, spent convictions, video surveillance and other security measures in the workplace, smart cards, data protection principles
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Title: Your privacy rights - Office of the Federal Privacy Commission website
About: Contains information for individuals, government, health and business sectors. Information on the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000, data-matching, email and other internet privacy issues, handling health and taxation information, privacy principles, lodging a complaint with the commission.
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Title: Privacy - Hot Topics series no 45
About: Federal laws, state and territory laws, and common law protections of privacy; privacy regarding telecommunications, media, and the workplace. Covers international developments from which much of Australian privacy law has evolved. Includes case studies.
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A Hot Topics title

Title: Privacy for government
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Books in public libraries

Title: Privacy. Chapter 36: The law handbook 11th edition
About: Federal and NSW privacy law, the Privacy Commissioner, Privacy NSW, information privacy principles, credit reporting, tax file numbers, spent convictions, public registers, criminal records.
Where: Check your public library.
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Title: Privacy - Hot Topics series no 45
About: Federal laws, state and territory laws, and common law protections of privacy; privacy regarding telecommunications, media, and the workplace. Covers international developments from which much of Australian privacy law has evolved. Includes case studies.
Where: Check your public library.
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A Hot Topics title

Lawyers' Tools

Title: Federal administrative law
About: Covers the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, the Federal Court, Freedom of Information, archives, Ombudsman, privacy. Location number Ref/N342.9406026/2
Author: Flick, Geoffrey
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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Title: Federal privacy handbook: a guide to federal privacy law and practice
About: Information Privacy Principles, public interest determinations, the National Privacy Principles, credit reporting, tax files numbers, data matching, health information, old convictions, codes. Also covers the Federal Privacy Commissioner. Location number Ref/342.940858/7
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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Title: Private sector privacy handbook
About: Includes the National Privacy Principles, e-commerce, employment, telecommunications, financial services, credit reporting, outsourcing, direct marketing, health, codes, enforcement and remedies. Location number Ref/NQ342.94085/17
Where: Available from the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of NSW
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