ACCAN recently submitted to the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications on the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Information Disclosure, National Interest and Other Measures) Bill 2022 (the Bill).
ACCAN’s submission set out our support for the Bill and in particular:
- The removal of the ‘imminence’ qualifier when determining whether to approve a triangulation request to locate individuals at risk of harm;
- Amendments to allow for the use and disclosure of information obtained from the Integrated Public Number Database when the information is connected to a call to an emergency number; and
- The increase in record-keeping requirements to facilitate oversight of disclosures by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner.
