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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Josh Taylor

Australian privacy watchdog refuses to investigate employer that allegedly accessed worker’s personal emails

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Australia’s information commissioner received a complaint in 2019 from a man, Shayano Madzikanda, alleging his employer Mecrus had read his personal emails from his work computer. Photograph: PhotoAlto/Alamy

The Australian information commissioner refused to investigate an employer that allegedly accessed an employee’s personal emails, on the grounds the information was accessed on the employee’s work laptop.

The decision of a delegate of the information commissioner, who holds responsibility for enforcing the Privacy Act, was revealed this month in a federal court of appeal ruling that rejected an appeal against the decision.

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