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Chapter 8
Privacy and Cyber Forensics:
An Australian Perspective
Introduction
Each day, a vast number of Australians are subject to surveillance and investigation. Corporations,
employers, media organizations, attorneys, and private property owners, mainly through their privately
contracted investigators, regularly engage in watching, fi lming and listening to others. Many have, at
their fi ngertips, the tools of cyber forensics that can delve into the personal electronic databases upon
which governments at all levels and many householders now store vast amounts of information.
Australian law does not often specifi cally empower such intrusive ...