– Identify and analyse legal, ethical and sustainability issues and potential
business impacts
Legal issues
Privacy Act 1988
This Act relates to the handling of personal information about people. It:
Regulates the collection, storage, use, disclosure, security and disposal of
individuals' tax file numbers
Permits the handling of health information for health and medical
research purposes in certain circumstances, where researchers are
unable to seek individuals' consent
Allows the information commissioner to approve and
register enforceable app codes that have been developed by an
app code developer, or developed by the information
commissioner directly
Permits a small business operator, who would otherwise not be
subject to the Australian privacy principles (apps) and any relevant
privacy code, to opt-in to being covered by the apps and any relevant app code
Allows for privacy regulations to be made.