IP: Australians on Privacy

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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>
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> ----- 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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