OrwellGeorge, Nineteen Eighty-Four (first published 1949, 1954 ed) 5.
2.
Uniting And Strengthening America By Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept And Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 Pub L No 107–56, 115 Stat 272, see especially Title II ‘Enhanced Surveillance Procedures’.
As amended by the Telecommunications (Interception) Amendment (Stored Communications) Act 2004 (Cth).
5.
See, eg, Australian Privacy Foundation, Re: Review of the Regulation of Access to Communications under the Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979 (20 May 2005) [36]–[42] <http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/SubmTelecomIntercept050520.pdf> at 9 November 2005.
6.
AnthonySBlunnAO, Report of the Review of the Regulation of Access to Communications (August 2005) <http://www.ag.gov.au/blunnreview> at 20 September 2005 (Blunn Report).
Inspector General Intelligence and Security, ‘MV Tampa, August–September 2001 — Collection and Reporting of Intelligence Relating to Australians’ (April 2002) <http://www.igis.gov.au/tampa_statement.cfm> at 20 September 2005.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Getting in on the Act: The Review of the Private Sector Provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (March 2005) <http://www.privacy.gov.au/act/review/index.html> at 20 September 2005.
29.
See, eg, Australian Privacy Foundation, Review of Privacy Act 1988 private sector provisions (December 2004) [4] <http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/index.html> at 16 November 2005.
Although there are some potential ways of addressing this, see, eg, ‘Distortion to fool ID thieves’, The Australian (Sydney), IT Broadsheet, 13 September 2005, 4.
33.
For discussion of the possible exclusion of classes of people by the introduction of biometric identification see, eg, RoweDuncan Graham, ‘Privacy and prejudice: Whose ID is it anyway?’, New Scientist, 17 September 2005 (No 2517), 20–21.
