[BUGS] Assumed Privacy of E-Mails?

[Piers Rowan]

http://www.privacy.gov.au/internet/email/

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      Private sector

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner receives many enquiries regarding 
the privacy of workplace e-mail and web-browsing activities. It is 
apparent from these calls that there is a general expectation, by staff, 
that law exists which protects their privacy in the workplace. There is 
no general constitutional or common law right to privacy in Australia. 
However, in December 2000 the Federal Government introduced "light 
touch" privacy legislation 
<http://www.privacy.gov.au/business/index.html> to cover the private 
sector which is based on the National Privacy Principles 
<http://www.privacy.gov.au/publications/npps01.html> for the Fair 
Handling of Personal Information. This legislation applies to staff 
e-mails that contain personal information other than "employee records" 
in certain circumstances. The private sector legislation also applies to 
logs of staff web browsing activities.


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http://www.privacy.gov.au/publications/ipps.html

That might be helpful to some.

Cheers

Piers