Submission to the TLRI Review of Privacy Laws in Tasmania

The Tasmania Law Reform Institute (TLRI) is undertaking a review of Tasmania’s current Privacy laws and protections, upon accepting a reference I submitted to the TLRI in 2019.

As part of that Review, the TLRI released an Issues Paper No. 32 in March 2023, to which submissions were invited. It is concerning that despite the state’s Personal Information Protection Act 2004, the TLRI’s assessment is:

“Currently, there is no comprehensive privacy regulation in Tasmania.  Rather, privacy protection is fragmented across different laws that protect different types of privacy in different specific circumstances” (see pg xii of the Issues Paper No. 32).

See below for my submission made to this important law reform project.

Additional information about the TLRI’s Review of Tasmania’s Privacy Laws is available at: the TLRI Ongoing Law Reform Projects.