Way more than an everyday interest in IP
Late last week the Full Federal Court delivered what should be the final word in a long-running dispute between the Privacy Commissioner and Telstra about whether data generated within a telecommunications network in the course of transmitting calls and other messages should be treated as “personal information” under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). The case read more...The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has delivered Telstra, and many other companies who collect operational data about services they provide to individual end users, an early Christmas present by overturning a determination by the Privacy Commissioner from earlier this year and finding that mobile network data held by Telstra is not personal information about Telstra’s customers. read more...Is information contained in a document about a residential property “personal information” about the owners or occupants of the property under NSW privacy legislation even if the document doesn’t directly identify the owners or occupants? This was the question that the Appeal Panel of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal had to consider in Office read more...
