The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) has requested that the federal government urgently reform existing laws and reconsider the administration of My Health Record ...

Australia's Attorney-General Christian Porter announced on Friday the terms of reference and issues paper that his department will use as a basis for its review of ...

"The law cannot do everything - even if we have a statutory tort for invasion of privacy it is not going to stop people invading privacy any more than a law against murder stops murder," she said. As ...

The rejection comes soon after the commission outlined detailed plans for a privacy tort in response to instructions given to the commission before Labor lost last year’s federal election.

The new tort of intrusion upon seclusion has been “implicitly” recognized in Nova Scotia, according to a ruling in a medical records privacy breach class action that challenged its existence in that ...

During the last three years, the federal, NSW and Victorian Law Reform Commissions have all concluded that a statutory tort is necessary to deal with aspects of privacy that are currently unprotected ...