Australian Privacy Foundation Information

The Foundation aims to focus public attention on emerging issues which pose a threat to the freedom and privacy of Australians. The Foundation has led the fight to defend the right of individuals to control their personal information and to be free of excessive intrusions. The Privacy Foundation plays a unique role as a non-government organisation active on a wide range of privacy issues. It works with consumer organisations, civil liberties councils, professional associations and other community groups on specific privacy issues. The Privacy Foundation is also a participant in Privacy International, the world-wide privacy protection network. Where possible, it cooperates with and supports official agencies, but it is entirely independent - and often critical - of the performance of agencies set up to protect our privacy. The Privacy Foundation is an entirely voluntary organisation. It is involved in a wide range of privacy issues. The following are regarded as the matters of highest priority:ensuring that the Commonwealth Government's changes to privacy legislation to cover the private sector give Australians real privacy safeguardscontributing to the development of industry codeshighlighting privacy risks in emerging technologies including biometricsparticipating in global efforts to make the Internet safe for personal privacyThe Major Contributors to the APF's Work