10.2.2.1 — The Information Privacy Principles deal with the following matters:
- ensuring lawful and fair collection practices
- giving notice of the purposes of collection and disclosure practices
- keeping information relevant and up to date
- maintaining reasonable storage and security controls
- requiring agencies to maintain accessible directories of the kind of information held, and controls that apply to its handling
- providing access to individuals to scrutinise their own files
- allowing individuals to amend or correct personal records
- checking the accuracy of records prior to using them
- confining the use of a record to relevant purposes; but
- allowing for exceptional circumstances in which information may be used for purposes other than those for which the information was collected
- prohibiting, subject to certain public interest qualifications, the disclosure of personal information to third parties.