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Author Healey, Justin.

Title Privacy and information rights / edited by Justin Healey
Published Thirroul, N.S.W. : Spinney Press, [2012]
Thirroul, N.S.W. : Spinney Press, 2012
©2012
©2012

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Description 60 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cm
regular print
Series Issues in society ; v. 341
Issues in society (Balmain, N.S.W.) ; v. 341
Contents 1. Privacy regulation and rights -- 2. Communications privacy -- 3. Privacy and the media -- Exploring issues, worksheets and activities -- Fast facts -- Glossary -- Web links -- Index
Summary We live in a public age in which the free flow of personal information is increasingly exposed to serious invasions of privacy. Privacy protection is a growing concern in relation to how people use rapidly advancing technology to store and share their personal information with family, friends, organisations and governments. Many Australians' daily interactions are conveyed by social networking websites and mobile phones, and can involve sharing personal and financial data online, often under the watchful eye of CCTV surveillance - but are our privacy laws and protections keeping pace with technological change? Although people are able to complain about the misuse of their personal information to a national information commissioner, Australian laws do not clearly allow a person to take action against a person or entity that seriously violates their privacy. In light of the British media's recent phone hacking scandal, should people's right to privacy be at the expense of freedom of expression and the freedom of the media to seek out and disseminate information of public interest? Can a balance between these principles be struck? Is anything really private anymore?
Analysis Australian
Computer security
Freedom of information
Legislation
Mass media
Privacy
Notes Also available online
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also available online
Subject Data protection -- Australia -- Juvenile literature.
Data protection -- Australia.
Freedom of information -- Australia -- Juvenile literature.
Freedom of information -- Australia.
Freedom of information.
Information storage and retrieval systems -- Security measures.
Mass media -- Australia -- Juvenile literature.
Mass media -- Australia.
Privacy, Right of -- Australia -- Juvenile literature.
Privacy, Right of -- Australia.
Privacy, Right of.
Author Healey, Justin, editor
ISBN 9781921507779 (paperback)