Mitchell MarkHon MARK MITCHELL (National—Rodney): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. It's my great pleasure to take a call on this the Privacy Bill. The key purpose of reforming the Act is to promote people's confidence that their personal information is secure and will be treated properly. It's very relevant obviously and today with—like the chairman of the Justice Committee Raymond Huo was saying—the free flow of information and all the social media platforms. I'm well known to not really use the social media platforms necessarily like they should be.Denise Lee : Yeah should be.Hon MARK MITCHELL: That's right. But the fact of the matter is that there's always a huge risk that our personal information can get out and become available to people that we may not necessarily want to see or have that information.I think the Facebook example is very good and relevant because Mr Zuckerberg who recently in the last 48 hours appeared in front of a United States Senate committee stated that he had had to employ an extra 20000 people to make sure that they were actually monitoring the content and the privacy provisions on Facebook. He had to acknowledge that although they had a very big disclaimer and legal statement when you sign up to Facebook not many people actually read it it's all in legalese and they probably wouldn't understand exactly what it means anyway. So it highlights that there's got to be a big focus on privacy and how we deal with it.I know that during my time as Minister of Statistics it was interesting because we gathered a lot of information and as part of our social investment programme it was important to be able to use data and to be able to analyse data. For Government agencies to do that effectively they also have to be able to collect information from NGOs or partners outside of Government that they're working with. But to do that you have to have a high level of credibility and be able to prove that some of that information which is going to be sensitive you're going to be able to anonymise it so that you can actually remove any information that will identify the individual themselves whereas still being able to keep the data that actually shows trends and allows Governments to make good decisions. This is an important part for any Government in terms of the decisions that they're going to be making.So just very quickly the changes made in the bill as set out in the explanatory note: there's going to be mandatory reporting of privacy breaches: … compliance notices: the Commissioner will be able to issue compliance notices that require an agency to do something or stop doing something in order to comply with privacy law."—this is very important and—"The Human Rights Review Tribunal will be able to enforce compliance notices and hear appeals." So there's some good checks and balances that are contained within this bill. "[N]ew criminal offences: it will be an offence to mislead an agency in a way that affects someone else's information and to knowingly destroy documents containing personal information where a request has been made for it. The penalty is a fine not exceeding $10000:". It's got to be good penalty; it's got to be a decent fine to deter and stop that type of criminal offending. So I think this is a very very good part of the bill.Finally "Commissioner making binding decisions on access requests: this reform will enable the Commissioner to make decisions on complaints relating to access to information rather than the Human Rights Review Tribunal. The Commissioner's decision will be able to be appealed to the Tribunal:". That quite simply is just streamlining the process and making sure that people get access to that service quickly with of course the ability to still be able to take it to the Human Rights Review Tribunal if they need to if they didn't feel like there was a good outcome. So I'm very happy to have taken the call and stand in support of the Privacy Bill. Thank you."