atw: Re: [Fwd: Privacy and Placement/Recruitment agencies]

there is a Privacy commissioner


>From: "Birtley-Kent, Christine" <birtleykentc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "'austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: atw: Re: [Fwd: Privacy and Placement/Recruitment agencies]
>Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:51:03 +1000
>
>======================================================================
>Your personal and sensitive information may be disclosed to...
>- a professional association or registration body that has a proper
>interest in the disclosure of your personal and sensitive information;
>======================================================================
>What professional association or registration body?  It probably makes 
>sense
>for doctors etc, and would be appropriate in that context to ensure they 
>are
>registered.
>
>This one is not too much of a problem for us, but of more importance is the
>recruiter who supplied my details to a training company who then called me
>to see what training I would benefit from!!  In other words, if they claim
>some kind of business link - I don't know the legalities of this - they can
>pass any or all of your data around their linked companies and do what they
>like with it.
>
>I think the power of the recruiters is becoming excessive and open to 
>abuse,
>but does anyone know if there some body or ombudsman we can raise the issue
>of these privacy statements with?  We cannot waive human rights or
>legislated rights, so some of these statements might be illegal.
>
>ck
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Geoff-lists [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, 22 September 2004 3:33 PM
>To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; austechwriter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: atw: [Fwd: Privacy and Placement/Recruitment agencies]
>
>
>(Sorry Geoffrey, wrong address used, fixed now)
>
>G'day,
>
>I've been signing up with a few recruitment/placement agencies recently,
>and some of the privacy statements bug me.  Has anyone come across this
>one before:
>
>======================================================================
>Your personal and sensitive information may be disclosed to...
>- a professional association or registration body that has a proper
>interest in the disclosure of your personal and sensitive information;
>======================================================================
>
>Lots more in the list of course, but its the first time I've seen this
>one.  It appears to me that I have to give permission for my personal
>and sensitive information to be made available to a wide range of
>organisations.
>
>An *extreme* example could be: accreditation goes forward for tech comms
>(not likely, but...), and ASTC ?? goes to the agency and says, "We
>believe that Geoff is claiming to be a technical writer.  Our records
>show that he is not accredited, please release his details to us so we
>can verify that he has the experience he claims.  We need to protect the
>good name of technical writers in Australia."
>
>Now, my level of paranoia may be a bit high here (note the *extreme*
>above), but it was one of the first things that crossed my mind.
>
>Has anyone (writers, recruiters, editors, ...) seen clauses like this
>before?  I'd love to know your opinions.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Geoff
>
>
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