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Interpreting Privacy Principles research project
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Interpreting Privacy Principles
(ARC 'Discovery' Research Project)

Symposium

Enforcing Information Privacy Laws

3 July 2007, 1.30 pm-4:30 pm
Level 8, 133 Castlereagh Street, Sydney
(Venue by kind permission of the Privacy Commissioner)

This symposium, organised by the Interpreting Privacy Principles Project at the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre, UNSW, explored the experience of enforcement of information privacy laws both in Australia and in New Zealand.

Program

1.30 - 1.40 Welcome and introduction

  • Nigel Waters (Principal Researcher, Interpreting Privacy Principles Project at the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre, University of New South Wales)

1:40– 2:20 Data Protection Litigation in New Zealand: Processes and Outcomes

  • Gehan Gunasekara, Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Auckland Business School [PPT] [PDF]

2.20-3:00 Sword or shield? The role of a Regulator

  • Mark Hummerston, Assistant Commissioner, Office of the Australian Privacy Commissioner [PPT] [PDF]

3:00 –3:20 Afternoon Tea

3:20 –4:00 Problems in enforcing Australian Privacy Laws - Some issues arising from complaint cases

  • Nigel Waters (Principal Researcher, Interpreting Privacy Principles Project at the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre, University of New South Wales) [PDF]

4.00-4.30 Questions and General Discussion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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