On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Don Stokes wrote:
Doesn't the Privacy Act ban that sort of user tracking? Not of the data provided doesn't identify an individual.
Personal information'' means information about an identifiable individual
If there's no direct link to an identifiable individual, then the Privacy Act simply does not apply.
That depends on *which* individual one is considering. It may not identify individual visitors, but in the case of "personal home pages", it would certainly identify the individuals who are receiving visitors. I would consider "how many people visited my personal web site" to be information personal to me, albeit a trivial amount, and it's clearly identifiable to the individual concerned. If privacy is to have any meaning in the information age, it can no longer be about just stopping obvious intrusions: limitless agregation of freely discarded trivia like "how many friends do you have" can now breach any reasonable boundary of personal identity. -Martin - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog