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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Australian spy agency offered to share data about
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Australian spy agency offered to share data about ordinary citizens
http://j.mp/IDDfhe (Guardian)
The memo flags privacy concerns around the collection of various types
of data, but the meeting, according to the record, resolved not to set
"automatic limitations" - leaving judgment calls to each country's own
agencies. "Consideration was given as to whether any types of data
were prohibited, for example medical, legal, religious or restricted
business information, which may be regarded as an intrusion of
privacy," the memo says. "Given the nascent state of many of these
data types then no, or limited, precedents have been set with respect
to proportionality or propriety, or whether different legal
considerations applies to the 'ownership' of this data compared with
the communications data that we were more accustomed to handle." "It
was agreed that the conference should not seek to set any automatic
limitations, but any such difficult cases would have to be considered
by 'owning' agency on a case-by-case basis."
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