Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

I might supplement that as well and highlight changes, related to this point, that have been made to the explanatory memorandum. Labor's view is this amendment is now unnecessary. We were alive to the suggestion that data which is retained only for the purposes of this scheme should be destroyed once the retention period expires. The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security addressed this matter, recommending that the explanatory memorandum to the bill be amended to clarify the obligations of telcos in this regard. The revised explanatory memorandum clarifies that, as the Australian privacy principles apply to the scheme, telcos are obliged to destroy or de-identify data at the end of the retention period if there is no other acceptable purpose under privacy law for retaining it.

Question negatived.