• Victorian Law Reform Commission

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10 September 2010This is the Victorian Law Reform Commission’s Final Report for the second phase of our inquiry into the use of surveillance and other privacy-invasive technologies. In 2005 they published our Workplace Privacy: Final Report. In this report the commission considers surveillance in public places.

Surveillance devices have become increasingly affordable, available and sophisticated. Their use has proliferated. Current laws were not designed to deal with the many ways in which these devices are used in Victorian public places. In this report the commission makes a series of recommendations that seek to modernise the existing regulatory regime. The recommendations strive to encourage responsible surveillance practices and ensure that users of surveillance devices do not infringe the rights of the Victorian public.