The ruling came as a huge surprise, as many of the lower courts had found that basic subscriber information like name, address and phone number of users on the basis of an IP address does not constitute personal information, and therefore could be shared with police without a warrant.
"Such information would constitute personal data," Murphy said.
"I am consequently of the view that the metadata Telstra holds in connection with an individual which permits that individual's identity to reasonably be ascertained from that metadata constitutes the personal information of that individual under the Privacy Act".
What exactly constitutes personal identity?
The questionnaire used in this research constitutes of a preamble and 02 parts the preamble had an as objective to define the theme of research, it equally constituted of some personal information of the respondents such as: age, gender, present occupation in the enterprise.
"I therefore find that in the present set of circumstances, the metadata held by Telstra to which it refuses to give the complainant access (the so named 'network data') constitutes the complainant's personal information under the Privacy Act," he said.
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