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Privacy Act 2020

Information privacy principles and codes of practice - Information privacy principles

27: Restricted application of IPPs to personal information collected or held for personal or domestic affairs

You could also call this:

"Some privacy rules don't apply when you collect personal info for personal or family use"

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If you are an individual collecting personal information for your own personal or domestic affairs, some information privacy principles do not apply to you. This means that principles 1 to 3 and 4(b) do not apply when you collect personal information just for your personal or domestic affairs. You must be collecting this information just for yourself, not for any other reason.

If you are holding personal information that you collected in a lawful way for your personal or domestic affairs, some other information privacy principles do not apply to you. This includes principles 5 to 12, but only if you collected the information lawfully and just for your personal or domestic affairs.

However, there is an exception to these rules - if collecting, using, or sharing the personal information would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, the exemptions do not apply, you can compare this to the 1993 law.

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Part 3Information privacy principles and codes of practice
Information privacy principles

27Restricted application of IPPs to personal information collected or held for personal or domestic affairs

  1. IPPs 1 to 3 and 4(b) do not apply to an agency if that agency—

  2. is an individual; and
    1. is collecting personal information solely for the purposes of, or in connection with, the individual’s personal or domestic affairs.

      1. IPPs 5 to 12 do not apply to an agency if that agency—

      2. is an individual; and
        1. is holding personal information that was collected by a lawful means solely for the purposes of, or in connection with, the individual’s personal or domestic affairs.

          1. However, the exemptions in subsections (1) and (2) do not apply if the collection, use, or disclosure of the personal information would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.

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