Privacy
The expanding reach of digital media has sharpened the focus on privacy issues for business, government and the community.
DLA Phillips Fox’s lawyers are at the cutting edge of developments in privacy law and ensure our clients comply with best practice and applicable privacy and related legislation. The regulatory framework goes beyond privacy law to include workplace and other surveillance, marketing, use of telecommunications, spam, DNA databases, anti money laundering, counter terrorism and emerging technologies.
New issues constantly arise from the complexities of both federal and state privacy laws, the interplay of FOI legislation for government contractors, the emerging option of binding corporate rules for clients dealing with Europe, developments in the common law and proposed law reform.
We deliver:
- Practical advice – based on a sound understanding of the goals and objectives of your business, we work with you to develop systems, training programs and compliance regimes that build privacy compliance into your everyday work.
- Technical expertise – we understand the interaction of privacy law and other legislation regulating the collection, use and disclosure of personal information and continuously monitor privacy law developments.
- International perspective – through our global alliance with DLA Piper we offer clients a genuinely global perspective, drawing on knowledge gained from a large international network of lawyers with privacy law experts in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
- Keeping you up to date – our law updates, seminars and conference contributions keep you on top of reviews, proposed legislation, Privacy Commissioner decisions and policies, case law and trends.
We advise on:
- Privacy compliance and issue management.
- Database and other information management issues.
- Contract drafting for agreements, contracts and other arrangements in all business sectors – local and global.
- Specific privacy compliance issues for government agencies, government trading enterprises and businesses contracting with government.
- Drafting, reviewing and updating privacy policies, website privacy statements and other privacy notices.
- New privacy obligations arising from other legislation.