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Privacy Act 2020

Information privacy principles and codes of practice - Information privacy principles

25: IPPs 1 to 4 do not apply to personal information collected before 1 July 1993

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“Old rules don't apply to personal info collected before July 1993”

The first four Information Privacy Principles (IPPs) don’t apply to personal information that was collected before 1 July 1993. This means that if someone gathered information about you before that date, they don’t have to follow those rules for that old information. It’s important to remember that this only affects information from before 1 July 1993, and newer information still needs to follow all the rules.

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Information privacy principles

25IPPs 1 to 4 do not apply to personal information collected before 1 July 1993

  1. IPPs 1 to 4 do not apply to personal information collected before 1 July 1993.

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