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Title: My health my privacy my choice: a consumer's guide to privacy and health information
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Title: Privacy: your rights: consumer fact sheet 7
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Title: Private sector privacy
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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: Human genetic information - Hot Topics series no 36
About: DNA, genes and chromosomes, genetic testing, and the regulation of genetic information; and implications such as privacy, discrimination, insurance, medical research. It also deals with hot issues such as cloning and stem cell research.
Author: Australian Law Reform Commission
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A Hot Topics title

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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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

Title: Human genetic information - Hot Topics series no 36
About: DNA, genes and chromosomes, genetic testing, and the regulation of genetic information; and implications such as privacy, discrimination, insurance, medical research. It also deals with hot issues such as cloning and stem cell research.
Author: Australian Law Reform Commission
Where: Check your public library.
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A Hot Topics title

Title: Elder law in Australia
About: All areas of law regarding older Australians including deceased estates, negligence, elders in society, elder abuse (financial and competence contexts), confidentiality and discrimination issues, age and disability discrimination, retirement village living, delegated decision making, and challenges to wills and estates.
Author: Lewis, Rodney
Where: Check your public library.
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Lawyers' Tools

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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