On Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 12:06:58AM +1000, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
> > Unfortunately as far as I know they have done nothing illegal. I seem to
> > remember there be no law against selling peoples details. As far as I
> > remember having it described to me, they are allowed to possess, sell and
> > use the details, so long as they do not physically read them (ie. as long
> > as they do not read them with their own two eyes, automatically reading
> > them is fine).
>
> As I understand it there will be legislation coming through
> to stop this sort of thing. I believe it may even become retrospective.
It's not coming until at least next July, and it will _not_ be
retrospective (that's the current take anyway, it hasn't passed
through parliament yet, so things may change).
Scott.
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