In the wake of the terrible bush fires that hit Victoria, new regulations create an exception to the use and disclosure offences under Part 13 of the Telecommunications Act 1997.
Part 13 of the Act requires that Carriers, CSPs, their employees and contractors protect the confidentiality of protected information such as the content of communications, the affairs and personal particulars of people and namely the integrated public number database. The offences under this part are contained in sections 276 to 278, and can include a penalty of imprisonment against offenders.
Who doesn’t have a story about a time they received an email with dozens of people identified in the to: or cc: field, when they obviously should have been in the bcc: field ?
Under the headline 
The blueprint for major changes to Australian privacy law was released last Monday. It may take as long as 18 months for new laws to arrive, but it’s a sure thing.
An outdated data privacy law threatens to outlaw targeted advertising technologies. In fact, the Telecommunications Act could make the systems criminal.
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