Subjects 2009
Privacy Law (formerly Privacy and Data Protection) 730698
- Credited Courses: Graduate Diploma in Communications Law 518; Graduate Diploma in Government Law 178; Graduate Diploma in Health and Medical Law 343; Master of Commercial Law 504; Master of Health and Medical Law 507; Master of Laws (LLM) 502; Master of Public and International Law 511
Objectives
A student who has successfully completed this subject should:
- Understand the rapidly evolving body of Australian law that recognises and protects ‘privacy’
- Be able to evaluate Australia’s privacy law regime, drawing on relevant sources of law
- Have a good understanding of the legal and policy issues involved with the protection of privacy at general law
- Have a good understanding of the commonwealth and state regimes for regulating information privacy/data protection
- Be able to demonstrate an awareness of the broader context of privacy regulation, involving discussion of policy issues, current debates and trends, and law reform in Australia.
Syllabus
Principal topics will include:
- What is privacy? (Conceptual and legal definitional issues)
- International and comparative privacy and data-protection regimes
- Protection of privacy at general law
- The Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the regulation of personal information held by the private and public sectors
- State/territory (especially Victorian) legislative regimes for the regulation of personal information
- Co-regulation, self-regulation and privacy codes of conduct
- Privacy and the media
- Privacy and health information (including genetic information)
- Online privacy, including anti-spam laws
- Telecommunications and surveillance privacy.
