Question

Which two Acts set legislative guidelines about how information should be collected, disclosed, used and stored and what do these Acts cover?

Answer 1

Answer:

There are two acts set legislative guidelines both introduced in 1988 and they are Privacy and personal information protection act and another one is Commonwealth privacy act . These both legislative acts helps in the collection of personal information and protect those from others with certain rules and also stored in safe places.

These acts works as:

--These acts gather the personal information means the unavailable data of that peerson even in normal records like that person's fingerprints, blood samples and their blood type and also samples of their retina and also gather their genetic information and store it in safe places which not give access to others.

--these acts helps in the gathering if information and keep it up to date in records, also these acts does not store the persons information if it is more than 30 years.

--These acts gather information of person who is very important witness and have to protect that witness.

--information about the person who is going to select as public official officer or any other higher officials and thier related information or any opinions about that gathered and keep it safe and uses them when it is necessary.

--The stored information should keep it safe and these acts also introduced privacy codes for those to keep it safe.

-- these acts also keeps persons health information and do not disclosed to others and only has access to that person or the other official with that person's permission.

--These acts also gives puinshment or penality if the stored information leaks or discloses withour proper procedure.