Our privacy lawyers advise clients on all aspects of privacy law and regulatory compliance including compliance with the Australian Privacy Principles and credit reporting laws.

Our privacy lawyers assist clients to comply with federal and state privacy laws when collecting, using, disclosing, storing and otherwise handling personal information including credit information, health information and tax file number information.

Our privacy lawyers also assist clients to put in place appropriate privacy and credit reporting policies and procedures for the handling of personal information and credit information respectively.

In addition, our privacy lawyers assist clients to enter into agreements involving the handling of personal information which comply with all applicable laws including federal and state privacy laws.

Our privacy lawyers have provided legal and regulatory services to clients involving:
  • advising on, drafting and negotiating privacy clauses for agreements

  • advising on and drafting privacy and credit reporting policies, collection statements and consents

  • advising on and drafting privacy and credit reporting procedures

  • advising on compliance with privacy, credit reporting, spam, computer crime and surveillance laws

  • advising on cross-border disclosure of personal information

  • advising on the protection of personal information, credit information and health information

  • advising on requests for access to and correction of personal information and health records information

  • providing privacy compliance training

  • undertaking privacy compliance audits

Privacy Projects

Our privacy lawyers have provided legal services to clients for a wide range of privacy projects including:
  • advising on and drafting amendments to a privacy policy for a website of a major state government department taking into account social networking technologies

  • advising on publication of personal information on social networking websites

  • drafting a privacy policy for a local government promotional website

  • drafting a privacy policy for a website for an online document creation and management service

  • undertaking a privacy audit of the handling of personal information by a major casino