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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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“Preventing the use of exceptions to bypass rules for information matching programmes”

You might think that section 176 allows you to collect or share information for information matching programmes. However, this is not the case. Even if you are allowed to collect or share information for other reasons, you cannot use this permission for information matching programmes. This rule applies to official information matching programmes and any programmes that are similar to them. The law wants to make sure that information matching programmes follow special rules, and you can’t avoid these rules by using other exceptions.

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Part 7 Sharing, 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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