[LINK] Fwd: MR84 Reviewed privacy guidelines for broadcasters

[Antony Barry]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Australian Communications and Media Authority" <emma.rossi at acma.gov.au>
> Date: 25 August 2011 1:28:47 PM AEST
> To: <tony at tony-barry.emu.id.au>
> Subject: MR84 Reviewed privacy guidelines for broadcasters
> Reply-To: emma.rossi at acma.gov.au
> 
> 25 August 2011
> Reviewed privacy guidelines for broadcasters
> 
> Consent for children and other vulnerable 
> people is clarified in privacy guidelines for 
> broadcasters released for comment by the ACMA 
> today.
> 
> The guidelines also set out the ACMA’s 
> approach to invasions of privacy - where a 
> person’s seclusion is intruded upon – whether 
> or not in a public place.
> 
> The Privacy Guidelines were originally issued 
> by the ACMA in 2005 to assist in the 
> interpretation of privacy obligations 
> developed by industry in the various 
> broadcasting codes of practice. These cover 
> the use of material relating to a person’s 
> personal or private affairs or which invades 
> an individual’s privacy.
> 
> As previously foreshadowed by the ACMA, the 
> guidelines have been reviewed and are open 
> for comment till 7th October, 2011. This is 
> the first review of the Guidelines since 
> 2005.
> 
> The obligations concerning the use of private 
> information are clear but recent decisions 
> have suggested that much better guidance is 
> required around those concerning invasions of 
> privacy. Also published today are two 
> research reports, Community research into 
> broadcasting media privacy (2011) and 
> Australian’s views on privacy in broadcast 
> news and current affairs (2011), which were 
> specifically commissioned by the ACMA to 
> assist with its review. The research findings 
> indicate that the ACMA’s approach to the 
> privacy protections in the broadcasting codes 
> is in step with community attitudes.
> 
> In reviewing the Guidelines, the ACMA has 
> considered:
> 
> the current provisions in the various 
> broadcasting codes of practice;
> the ACMA’s broadcasting investigations 
> concerning privacy since August 2005;
> qualitative and quantitative research into 
> attitudes to privacy, specifically 
> commissioned by the ACMA to help inform the 
> review;
> the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Report 
> 108 For Your Information: Australian Privacy 
> Law and Practice; and
> general developments in the law in this 
> space.
> The draft guidelines are available on the 
> ACMA’s website.
> 
> The research reports can be downloaded from 
> the ACMA website.
> 
> For more information or to arrange an 
> interview please contact: Emma Rossi, Media 
> Manager, on (02) 9334 7719, 0434 652 063 or 
> media at acma.gov.au.
> 
> # # #
> 
> The ACMA is Australia’s regulator for 
> broadcasting, the internet, 
> radiocommunications and telecommunications. 
> The ACMA’s strategic intent is to make 
> communications and media work in Australia’s 
> public interest. For more information: 
> www.acma.gov.au.
> 
> Follow the ACMA online
> ACMA - See www.acma.gov.au for updates and 
> other social media activities
> Twitter - Find us at acmadotgov
> Facebook - Join in the discussion at 
> acmadotgov
> engage - Join the ACMA at 
> www.engage.acma.gov.au|BETA
>