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Privacy Act 2020

Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information - Authorised information matching programmes

186: Avoidance of controls on information matching through use of exceptions to information privacy principles

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"Don't use loopholes to get around rules when sharing personal info in matching programmes"

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If you collect or share personal information because of an information matching provision, some rules do not apply. These rules are in IPP 2(2)(e)(i) and IPP 11(1)(e)(i). They do not let you collect or share information for authorised information matching programmes or programmes that are similar.

You can find more about this in section 176. This rule is about stopping people from getting around controls on information matching by using exceptions to information privacy principles.

It applies to any programme that matches information, if the programme is authorised or if it is similar to an authorised programme.

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Part 7Sharing, accessing, and matching personal information
Authorised information matching programmes

186Avoidance of controls on information matching through use of exceptions to information privacy principles

  1. Despite section 176, if the collection or disclosure of information is authorised by an information matching provision, nothing in IPP 2(2)(e)(i) or IPP 11(1)(e)(i) authorises or permits the collection or disclosure of that information for the purposes of—

  2. any authorised information matching programme; or
    1. any information matching programme whose objective is similar in nature to any authorised information matching programme.

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