The issue I'm grappling with in proposed subsection 15.701(2) is that it would require us to notify a telecommunications service provider about the disposal of personal information.
The concern is less a conflict in law, as we would have to basically.... My apologies for being slow here. I think that whether there's an actual legal conflict, there's certainly a policy conflict in terms of how we would try to interpret the spirit of the provisions, because we are required to dispose of the information as soon as it's no longer needed or in accordance with the Privacy Act, but then we're also supposed to communicate with the telecom service provider about what we've done.
For us to communicate that, it almost gets into having to specify the information in question, which involves us.... How would we talk about the personal information without again using the personal information in some shape or form? We don't foresee using personal information under these authorities, so it may be moot in practice, but in reality there does appear to be effectively a conflict here.
