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The danger of physical contact
The current technological changes do not result in loss of time arguing about whether Internet citizens should have equal rights or different from those that is in the physical world. The current time and speed of change demands action.
Last November, Australia has published a new draft, which considers its Privacy Principles, which are the source of a series of reforms to current laws and regulations on the protection of individual rights, adapted to the XXI Century.
While Australia is not the only country which seeks to adapt its regulations to current technological changes, is one of the few countries that makes it continuously over time, influenced if, for international movements and guidelines of the Organization for Cooperation and European Economic Development (OECD) since the ’80s but, above all for your interest in providing its citizens protection tools with the times.
The proposed amendments to the Australian Privacy Principles (APP) seek to offer current regulations the following qualities:
* Consistency, simplicity and clarity so that it is easy to understand and apply in practice.
* Technologically neutral is not that “tied” to a technology available today but that could be quickly replaced in the future. This also implies the use of neutral language.
* Fair with the principles and obligations of agencies and governmental and private organizations.
* Adapted to the legislation “cross-border”, i.e. the personal information that may be trafficked between different countries (transnational) to apply the principles that govern the Internet.
* Providing legal tools to facilitate the court’s evaluation of new forms of commission of crime.