Very briefly, I don't have problems with clause 7. I'm not a criminal lawyer, but this opinion is based on a few things.
One is that in the years in which I've been Privacy Commissioner I have been continually amazed by the sophistication of the privacy breaches that we see. There are links to organized crime, to international organizations, and the difficulty for all our societies to come to grips with them. We've been involved in one of these international cases ourselves, and so on.
Secondly, I read that this paragraph is limited to those who act in good faith, which seems to me to put an important qualifier on it.
Thirdly, my understanding is that in many areas of the law it is necessary to use, let's say, forged documents, or what others say are forged documents, in order to set up a situation to prove a misdemeanour or an infraction of civil law. Certainly in the years I worked in human rights legislation it was a well-known fact that you could use testing to prove that, for example, certain types of housing are not rented to certain types of citizens, whether it be on the basis of their race or the fact that they have children, and so on. So it does not seem to me inherently offensive that we use to further the public good a document that was produced specially and would otherwise fall afoul of the other provisions of the act.