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IP: Australians on Privacy
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 19:50:41 -0400
Since GG and I will be there from the 23 rd Aug to 5 Sept, I found this interesting .djf
Reply-To: "Joel Reidenberg" <reidenberg () sprynet com> From: "Joel Reidenberg" <reidenberg () sprynet com> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>, <dave () farber net> Thought this research on Australian's attitudes toward privacy might be of interest to some IPers. Regards, JRR ******************************************************* Joel R. Reidenberg Professor of Law Fordham University School of Law 140 W. 62nd Street New York, NY 10023 Tel: (212)636-6843 Fax: (212)636-6899 Email: reidenberg () sprynet com Web page: <http://reidenberg.home.sprynet.com> ******************************************************* ----- Original Message ----- From: MalcolmCrompton () privacy gov au (Malcolm Crompton) Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 7:00 PM Subject: Research on Australian attitudes to privacy, conducted for the Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner Colleagues - I am writing to Data Protection Commissioners and others to let you all know about the research on Australian attitudes to privacy that this Office has commissioned and published. We commissioned a leading Australian research firm to carry out three projects - Community, Business and Government agency attitudes to privacy. The research was one of the 4 Key Result Areas identified in our Strategic Plan 2000 (see <http://www.privacy.gov.au/news/sp.html>). It arose from a couple of the strategic themes identified in the plan, including promoting a balanced understanding of privacy in the community. Here are some links if you want the full details of our research. The media release that we issued when launching the research is probably the easiest place to start. It can be found @: <outbind://6/www.privacy.gov.au/news/01_08.html>www.privacy.gov.au/news/01_08.html The three research reports can be downloaded from the "research" page on our website @: <http://www.privacy.gov.au/research/> The PowerPoint presentation that I delivered during the launch can be found on our "speeches" page @: <http://www.privacy.gov.au/news/speeches.html#n> We found some predictable results and some less predictable results. Of the former is the result indicating that 59% of Australians thought that it was "none of their business" when asked why they did not want to provide financial information to organisations, but they would think about handing over personal information if it resulted in improved services. More surprising was the finding that Australians rank respect for personal information equal FIRST with quality of product or service. (Our survey is the first in Australia to ask people to assess how respect for personal information ranks against fulfilment measures such as quality of product, or efficiency of service, price or convenience.) Even more interesting is the finding that 41% of those surveyed did not agree that health professionals should be able to discuss the medical details of an individual (in order to better treat them) - in a way which identified them - without the patients consent. The latter result is at: <http://www.privacy.gov.au/publications/rcommunity.html#4.27> Do feel free to quote any of this material in your own publications or link to it from your own web sites. Please feel free to circulate this e-mail as widely as you consider appropriate. We got quite good coverage for the research in leading newspapers, a lot of radio coverage & some TV coverage. We hope that in the near future, we will also see some magazine coverage. A few examples of the press coverage are at: <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,2506811%255E2702,00.html> <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,2468391,00.html> <http://www.smh.com.au/news/0108/02/biztech/comment2.html> Regards to you all and I hope that you find this research interesting. Malcolm Crompton Federal Privacy Commissioner Australia <http://www.privacy.gov.au> +61-2 9284 9610
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