Privacy

The Law Commission is expected to deliver the final report on its review of the Privacy Act next month. I hope it includes a recommendation that it is compulsory for people to be informed when their personal information is lost, stolen or inappropriately accessed.

Given my interest and work in privacy-related issues, I’ve done a fair number of presentations and attending seminars/workshops on privacy. In retrospect, most of them tended to be uni-dimensional, either presenting a point of view or preaching to the converted.

That’s why I think the privacy roundtables we jointly organised with the Law Commission on 21st and 22nd of June were somewhat unique and successful.

It is Privacy Awareness Week so a post on privacy is obligatory. But my thoughts go back a few weeks. The last school holidays to be precise.

Now, school holidays can be the best of times, the worst of times. A combination of too much time for kids and peer pressure tends to favour the worst of times outcome.