At 6:50 pm +0800 10/7/06, Richard Hosking wrote:
The law with regard to privacy has no teeth - there is no serious
penalty apart from possibly in common law which is very uncertain.
R
I'd need to see a lawyer's advice on the "teeth" aspect.
The issue at hand is 'Does sending email unencrypted constitute a "breach"'?
Lawyers could argue that intercepting private email is a breach as
much as sending email unencrypted is a breach.
I suspect encrypted email will be a real goer when the national
provider directory is up and running - a NeHTA project.
Ian.
Horst Herb wrote:
On Monday 10 July 2006 10:48, Greg Twyford wrote:
Apart from the Privacy Commissioner's usual lack of regard for privacy
issues [some personal experience re my own health data suggests that
they are a total waste of space],
I suppose the Priovacy Commissioner can only act within the given
legal framework.
If the law is crap (and the so called privacy law certainly is, not
even worth the paper it was printed on), nothing he can really do.
Horst
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