The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has delivered Telstra, and many other companies who collect operational data about services they provide to individual end users, an early Christmas present by overturning a determination by the Privacy Commissioner from earlier this year and finding that mobile network data held by Telstra is not personal information about Telstra’s customers.
Last week Justice Edelman delivered judgment in the Federal Court, finding that Reckitt Benckiser (Australia)’s packaging and website descriptions of the Nurofen ‘Specific Pain Range’ constituted misleading or deceptive conduct under section 18 of the Australian Consumer Law (‘ACL’).