Abstract
This Brief will demonstrate the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) that govern the usage of personal information can create substantial risk to the individual. It will accomplish this by setting out how the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) would not have prevented the sharing of the fitness data sourced from corporate servers in January 2018. It will explain how that published information would be classified as ‘de-identified’ data under Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). It will conclude by describing how the collection and collation of the data could form a risk to the individual.
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