The Holding Redlich privacy team provides advice to businesses involved in the information and services economy. 

We are experienced in a range of privacy related issues including:

• drafting standard form contracts for lawful consent and disclosure

• privacy legislation

• audits and compliance

• privacy statements

• responses to complaints about breaches

• dealing with the overlap with intellectual property rights and personal information in various data contexts

• within employment and creative contexts including confidential information and moral rights

Recent examples of our experience include:

• Advising the Australasian Retail Credit Association on preparing a code of conduct to manage their consumer credit information within the framework of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and ensuring the code complied with the ACCC regulations

• Acting for the Australasian Retail Credit Association in preparing submissions to the Australian Law Reform Commission arising out of the proposals contained in Discussion Paper 72 for the reform of Privacy law in Australia

• Advising VedaAdvantage Limited (formerly BaycorpAdvantage) on a number of privacy related issues including: preparing a heads of agreement for a joint venture with a large public listed conglomerate to share data to create a business model with new revenue streams for both businesses; providing privacy compliance advice on a range of information based products offered; providing privacy advice during the product design phase for the new market offerings; and preparing a policy recommendation for some of the proposals made by the Australian Law Reform Commission in Discussion Paper 72 for the reform of Privacy law in Australia

• Acting for an international service organisation about the collection and use of data in Australia including the ability to use personal information to create derivative statistical and risk assessment products for use by the organisation in and out of Australia

• Advising Sydney Opera House Trust regarding privacy issues in its implementation of a new ticketing system

• Advising on privacy policies and disclosures for a wide range of businesses

• Advising media companies (including film producers and broadcasters and advertising agencies) on potential invasion of privacy issues