A Full Bench of the Federal Court has handed down a judgment which sets out an interpretation of Australian privacy law that is being see as a rebuff to Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim, who has been seeking to secure a broad definition of personal information under the Privacy Act.The judges dismissed the commissioner’s appeal, siding
with Telstra and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal over whether the telco
needs to hand a full suite of telecommunications metadata over to Telstra
customer and former Fairfax journalist Ben Grubb.
The AAT originally ruled, “the mobile network data relates to the way in
which Telstra delivers the service or product for which Grubb pays.”
