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Privacy Law & Policy Reporter --- "IPND Progress" [1998] PrivLawPRpr 53; (1998) 5(3) Privacy Law & Policy Reporter 45
IPND Progress
The Integrated Public Number Database ACIF has completed 12 day long
meetings, with a (hopefully) final meeting slotted for September.
Privacy
accomplishments on the Working Committee so far include:
- confining those who will have access to IPND data;
- defining what that
data can be used for (as set out in Telstra’s carrier licence conditions)
and, more importantly, what it
cannot be used for;
- introducing the
possibility of a customer choice of a ‘suppressed address’ directory
listing option (not mandatory on
directory providers); and
- beginning the
process of declaring directory publishers of residential directories as a
‘section of the tele-communications
industry’, and therefore subject
to direction by the Australian Communications Authority in relation to the IPND
Code.
Outstanding privacy issues include:
- ensuring that any additional uses to which IPND data can be put (now
possible through ACA direction or regulations) are the subject
of further public
consultation;
- ensuring consumers know that their IPND data resides in an
IPND, is supplied to data users and for set purposes; and
- further
determining the implications of a suppressed address option.
The most
important issue, however, is enforcement and whether the Code can require that
all those given access to IPND data must first
become Code signatories (see
accompanying article).
The Committee plans to finalise its working on the Code by the end of
September, after which the Code will be released for a month
long period for
public comment.
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