There should be a Privacy Commissioner who would be a permanent Commonwealth statutory guardian for privacy. Human Rights Commission. The Human Rights Commission should be enlarged to include the Privacy Commissioner and to assume new and special responsibilities for privacy protection, as contemplated by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Statutory privacy principles. Statutory guiding rules should be provided to aid the Privacy Commissioner in the evaluation of complaints about privacy invasion, whether in respect of intrusions by officials or misuse of personal information.
Body cavity searches.
Specific rules should govern Commonwealth officials conducting body cavity searches with their particular invasion of individual privacy. New legislation should prohibit secret intrusion into privacy by listening devices and optical surveillance devices. Telephone and postal protection . New legislation should prohibit telephone tapping and interference with the traditional privacy of the mail. Access to personal information.