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  Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch: Guidelines issued by the Australian government's Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet advise public servants on how to avoid personal notebook comments being disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act. "As some comments included in notebooks may have the potential to cause embarrassment or could be misinterpreted if taken out of context, you should transcribe the information that needs to be recorded into a file note, record of conversation or minute, and ensure it is placed on the appropriate departmental file. (via Cosmos)

 [Pipeda.blogspot.com] The Canadian Privacy Law Blog: November 2004: "As the need for privacy, security and strong identification management is stressed invirtually every aspect of our lives, it becomes increasingly important for organizationsto shoulder the responsibility of addressing their customers’ requirements in thoseareas. EDS, the International Association of Privacy Professionals and the PonemonInstitute© recently conducted a study that reveals consumers’ habits, perceptions andrequirements concerning identity management and the privacy of their personal information.Their responses reveal an awareness, but also a need for organizations toevaluate and improve consumer education on identity theft, a need for understandingconsumer wants and needs, and a need for innovative identity management solutions."

 [Ozpolitics.info] The Oz Politics Blog » Commentary: the 2001 campaign was planned on the basis that Australians hated and would continue to hate the GST, for example, which had nearly lost the 1998 election for the Government. In the 2004 campaign, meanwhile, Latham did a good job of neutralising the national security issue which had proved so dominant in 2001, but failed to judge the extent to which the real battleground would be the economy.

 [Fff.org] McElroy's Blog - March 2004: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is trying to make end-runs around the "privacy problem." For example, Wired reports that the TSA has appointed "a vocal critic of its privacy practices to write its privacy policies, perhaps in a move to placate congressional critics and privacy advocates. Lisa Dean, who has worked as the Washington policy liaison for the Electronic Frontier Foundation since June 2003, is scheduled to start as the chief privacy officer of the TSA .

[Australianit.news.com.au] Australian IT - Police database scrapped (Michael Bachelard ...: PUBLIC servants will be the gatekeepers of sensitive Victorian police files after a furious Bracks Government was yesterday forced to belatedly replace the state's troubled criminal database.

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