TY - BOOK ID - 77916658 TI - Privacy and information rights PY - 2012 SN - 9781921507786 1921507780 9781921507779 1280647795 9786613633842 9781925339949 9781925339956 PB - Thirroul, NSW, Australia Spinney Press DB - UniCat KW - Privacy, Right of KW - Mass media KW - Freedom of information KW - Data protection KW - Data governance KW - Data regulation KW - Personal data protection KW - Protection, Data KW - Electronic data processing KW - Information, Freedom of KW - Liberty of information KW - Right to know KW - Civil rights KW - Freedom of speech KW - Intellectual freedom KW - Telecommunication KW - Mass communication KW - Media, Mass KW - Media, The KW - Communication KW - Invasion of privacy KW - Right of privacy KW - Libel and slander KW - Personality (Law) KW - Press law KW - Computer crimes KW - Confidential communications KW - Right to be forgotten KW - Secrecy KW - Study and teaching (Secondary) KW - Law and legislation KW - teaching resource collection KW - Privacy, Right of. KW - Intellectual capital. KW - Capital, Intellectual KW - Human capital KW - Knowledge management KW - Knowledge workers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77916658 AB - We live in a public age in which the free flow of personal information is increasingly exposed to serious invasions of privacy. Privacy protection is a growing concern in relation to how people use rapidly advancing technology to store and share their personal information with family, friends, organisations and governments. Many Australians' daily interactions are conveyed by social networking websites and mobile phones, and can involve sharing personal and financial data online, often under the watchful eye of CCTV surveillance - but are our privacy laws and protections keeping pace with technological change? Although people are able to complain about the misuse of their personal information to a national information commissioner, Australian laws do not clearly allow a person to take action against a person or entity that seriously violates their privacy. In light of the British media’s recent phone hacking scandal, should people’s right to privacy be at the expense of freedom of expression and the freedom of the media to seek out and disseminate information of public interest? Can a balance between these principles be struck? Is anything really private anymore? ER -