The Australian Government has made changes to functions overseen by the Attorney-General's Department and Department of Home Affairs. These changes involve the transfers of:

  • identity and biometrics functions into the Attorney-General's Department
  • protective security policy and government and major event security functions to the Department of Home Affairs.

Submissions received - Review of the Privacy Act 1988 issues paper

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ABC [PDF 1.12 MB]
ACCC [PDF 752.05 KB]
Adobe [PDF 751.53 KB]
AGL Energy Limited [PDF 1.17 MB]
Ai Group [PDF 778.24 KB]
Anonymous submission 1 [PDF 76.66 KB]
Anonymous submission 2 [PDF 410.76 KB]
Anonymous submission 3 [PDF 51.31 KB]
Anonymous submission 4 [PDF 18.15 KB]
Anonymous submission 5 [PDF 299.46 KB]
Anonymous submission 6 [PDF 837.96 KB]
ANZ [PDF 198.49 KB]
Arts Law Centre of Australia [PDF 270.36 KB]
Association for data-driven marketing and advertising [PDF 469.94 KB]
Assured Support [PDF 201.21 KB]
Atlassian [PDF 68.45 KB]
auDA [PDF 197.84 KB]
AusPayNet [PDF 322.93 KB]
Australian Association of National Advertisers [PDF 209.09 KB]
Australian Banking Association [PDF 236.77 KB]
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry [PDF 2.58 MB]
Australian Communications and Media Authority [PDF 300.84 KB]
Australian Communications Consumer Action Network [PDF 352.78 KB]
Australian Council on Children and the Media [PDF 241.15 KB]
Australian Department of Health [PDF 262.76 KB]
Australian Digital Health Agency [PDF 273.42 KB]
Australian Finance Industry Association [PDF 228.53 KB]
Australian Financial Markets Association [PDF 424.48 KB]
Australian Information Security Association [PDF 439.49 KB]
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [PDF 406.42 KB]
Australian Medical Association [PDF 348.04 KB]
Australian Privacy Foundation [PDF 352.5 KB]
Australian Retail Credit Association [PDF 435.88 KB]
Australia’s Right to Know Coalition (ARTK) [PDF 144.74 KB]
Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman [PDF 203.08 KB]
Australian Society of Archivists [PDF 221.32 KB]
Avant Mutual [PDF 448.52 KB]
Benevolent Society [PDF 233.75 KB]
Bennett + Co [PDF 184.79 KB]
Blancco [PDF 4.45 MB]
BSA | The Software Alliance [PDF 330.13 KB]
Business Council of Australia [PDF 1.26 MB]
Calabash Solutions [PDF 328.03 KB]
Castan Centre for Human Rights Law – Monash University [PDF 775.75 KB]
Centre for AI and Digital Ethics and Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne [PDF 210.5 KB]
Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation [PDF 685.79 KB]
Centre for Media Transition, University of Technology Sydney [PDF 282.78 KB]
CHOICE [PDF 1.56 MB]
Clubs Australia [PDF 302.39 KB]
Commercial Radio Australia Limited [PDF 142.42 KB]
Communications Alliance [PDF 254.83 KB]
Consumer Policy Research Centre [PDF 3.91 MB]
CrowdStrike [PDF 186.71 KB]
CSIRO [PDF 333.54 KB]
Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre [PDF 544.92 KB]
Data Republic [PDF 3.7 MB]
Data Synergies [PDF 560.29 KB]
Database Consultants Australia [PDF 408.22 KB]
Deloitte [PDF 1.1 MB]
Department of Health of Western Australia [PDF 1.88 MB]
Department of Justice and Community Safety, Victoria [PDF 284.18 KB]
Department of Veterans' Affairs [PDF 777.79 KB]
DIGI [PDF 345.63 KB]
Digital Rights Watch [PDF 152.9 KB]
Digital Rights Watch – Joint comments with Access Now, Centre for Responsible Technology Australia, Fastmail, Reset Australia [PDF 157.91 KB]
Dr Caitlin Curtis, Prof Nicole Gillespie and Dr Steve Lockey (University of Queensland) [PDF 273.72 KB]
Dr Chris Culnane and Associate Professor Ben Rubinstein [PDF 216.38 KB]
Dr Jelena Gligorijevic [PDF 247.34 KB]
Dr John Zerilli [PDF 566.56 KB]
Dr Kate Mathews Hunt [PDF 828.08 KB]
Dr Katharine Kemp [PDF 393.63 KB]
Dr Kerin Robinson [PDF 767.21 KB]
Dr Kimberlee Weatherall [PDF 102.19 KB]
Electronic Frontiers Australia [PDF 907.8 KB]
elevenM [PDF 236 KB]
Energy and Water Ombudsman, New South Wales [PDF 219.35 KB]
Experian [PDF 2.97 MB]
Facebook [PDF 1.12 MB]
Fastmail [PDF 113.04 KB]
Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries [PDF 388.9 KB]
Felix Harvey [PDF 102.96 KB]
Financial Planning Association of Australia [PDF 134.01 KB]
Financial Rights Legal Centre, Consumer Action Law Centre and Financial Counselling Australia [PDF 852.91 KB]
Financial Services Council [PDF 390.13 KB]
Fintech Australia [PDF 284.17 KB]
FreeTV Australia [PDF 419.58 KB]
Fundraising Institute Australia [PDF 455.07 KB]
Gadens [PDF 851.89 KB]
Global Data Alliance [PDF 147.26 KB]
Google [PDF 1.48 MB]
Griffith University [PDF 428.68 KB]
Ground Up [PDF 331.73 KB]
The Guardian Australia [PDF 220.48 KB]
HIV AIDS Legal Centre [PDF 326.29 KB]
Humanising Machine Intelligence Project, Australian National University [PDF 97.45 KB]
ID Exchange [PDF 7.95 MB]
IDCARE [PDF 542.71 KB]
illion [PDF 271.9 KB]
Information Technology Industry Council [PDF 194.4 KB]
Institute for Cyber Investigations and Forensics, University of the Sunshine Coast [PDF 281.76 KB]
Insurance Council of Australia [PDF 110.78 KB]
Integral GRC Pty Ltd [PDF 55.04 KB]
Interactive Games and Entertainment Association (IGEA) [PDF 312.63 KB]
James Scheibner (Department of Health Sciences and Technology ETH Zurich) and Dianne Nicol (Centre for Law and Genetics Universi [PDF 649.44 KB]
Karen Meohas [PDF 2.85 MB]
KPMG [PDF 1.67 MB]
Law Council of Australia [PDF 552.14 KB]
Law Institute of Victoria [PDF 520.83 KB]
Legal Aid New South Wales [PDF 1.14 MB]
Legal Aid Queensland [PDF 396.46 KB]
Lockstep Consulting [PDF 171.89 KB]
Maurice Blackburn [PDF 400.07 KB]
McAfee [PDF 161.99 KB]
Michael Douglas, University of Western Australia Law School [PDF 696.52 KB]
Microsoft Australia [PDF 121.32 KB]
MIGA (Medical Insurance Group Australia) [PDF 2.31 MB]
Minderoo Tech and Policy Lab, University of Western Australia Law School [PDF 200.45 KB]
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute [PDF 320.45 KB]
MyCRA Lawyers [PDF 310.23 KB]
National Archives of Australia [PDF 202.69 KB]
National Health and Medical Research Council [PDF 97.17 KB]
New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties [PDF 307.16 KB]
New South Wales Information and Privacy Commission [PDF 191.85 KB]
New York Times [PDF 80.1 KB]
Nine [PDF 261.78 KB]
Obesity Policy Coalition [PDF 189.41 KB]
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner [PDF 22.74 MB]
Office of the Information Commissioner Queensland [PDF 414.47 KB]
Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner [PDF 300.35 KB]
Openly Australia [PDF 240.02 KB]
Optus [PDF 2.22 MB]
Oracle [PDF 3.29 MB]
The Painter and The Writer Gallery [PDF 176.48 KB]
Palo Alto Networks [PDF 1.24 MB]
Privacy108 Consulting Pty Ltd [PDF 480.86 KB]
Privcore Pty Ltd [PDF 119.84 KB]
Public Interest Advocacy Centre [PDF 412.26 KB]
Queensland Council for Civil Liberties [PDF 242.46 KB]
Queensland Law Society [PDF 3.59 MB]
Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Law [PDF 393.49 KB]
Ramsay Australia [PDF 2.12 MB]
Records and Information Management Professionals of Australasia [PDF 319.78 KB]
Reset Australia [PDF 128.89 KB]
Rights in Records by Design (Monash University) [PDF 161.01 KB]
Roche [PDF 106.85 KB]
Roxanne Quinlan [PDF 585.46 KB]
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners [PDF 391.87 KB]
Salesforce [PDF 586.72 KB]
Salinger Privacy [PDF 452.32 KB]
Shaun Chung and Rohan Shukla [PDF 356.72 KB]
Shogun Cybersecurity [PDF 191.92 KB]
Shopping Centre Council of Australia [PDF 101.9 KB]
SBS [PDF 191.6 KB]
Snap Inc. [PDF 127.89 KB]
Superchoice [PDF 147.56 KB]
Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman Ltd [PDF 238.07 KB]
Telstra Corporation Ltd and Telstra Health Pty Ltd [PDF 301.9 KB]
The Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation [PDF 281.33 KB]
United States Chamber of Commerce [PDF 202.66 KB]
Uniting Church of Australia [PDF 690.02 KB]
University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Engineering and IT [PDF 342.16 KB]
Vanessa Teague [PDF 148.79 KB]
Western Union [PDF 257.84 KB]
William Delaforce [PDF 288.19 KB]
Woolworths [PDF 350.96 KB]
Workday [PDF 117.01 KB]

The government is reviewing the Privacy Act 1988 to ensure privacy settings empower consumers, protect their data and best serve the Australian economy. Submissions received in response to our issues paper are progressively published here. The review is considering submissions and will use this feedback to inform the future direction of the review.

Related links

Review of the Privacy Act 1988
Review of the Privacy Act 1988 – Terms of Reference
Review of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) – Issues paper