Privacy law, does it truly protect you?

Since 1788 Australia has become an ‘open range’ prison camp, where surveillance of the inhabitants was always high on the agenda.

As technology progressed so did the surveillance on the population, until the pinnacle of surveillance occurred via tower triangulation of mobile phone users and the advent of the Five Eyes (Anglosphere) global surveillance network.

As time goes on more surveillance occurs on the general population together with data collection.

The general population is deliberately conned/put into a false sense of security, with the term ‘anonymised’ data collection, alluding that data collected about that person from that person’s device does not identify that person.

Australia’s privacy law was never designed to truly protect anyone from the serf pool, where even if it does look good on paper, any court action may seem futile.

Officially, in Victoria, a person has privacy rights under the Privacy and Data Protection Act from 2014, even though we have been connected to the WWW  (World Wide Web) for over 20 years prior.

That's how deliberatly lacking the governmernt is in allegedly protecting the people.

Does the government take 20 years to implement revenue (as opposed to safety) devices such as speed cameras after their inception?

The above mentioned Act does not apply to that person’s health information, or how 'Commonwealth' agencies use the data, meaning the can (and do) misuse it, it's just that 'we' (the people) cannot prove this as the government will not allow us to have access to how they use our data.

Most worrisome, it also does not apply to ‘private organisations’ (i.e. companies and charities), meaning any person that holds an ACN (Austalian Company Number) or registered charity which in fact could serve as a data collection front, even thought these entities are allegedly covered by other privacy law.

Personal information can include:

    your name;

    email address;

    postal address;

    phone number;

    signature;

    fingerprint;

    photographs or surveillance footage of you;

    comments written about you; or

    your financial details.

To be considered personal information, the information or opinion must be recorded. It will be considered personal information regardless of whether it is true or not.

Some personal information is considered particularly sensitive, and these types of information are subject to higher protections under the PDP Act.

This includes information about your:

    race or ethnicity;

    political opinions;

    membership to a political association;

    religion;

    philosophical beliefs;

    membership to a professional or trade association;

    membership to a trade union;

    sexual preferences or practices; or

    criminal record.

Australia is a 'Nanny State' or secretive police state, and any illusion of privacy is exactly just that, an illusion.