TRANSPORT FOR NSW LOSES LEGAL BATTLE TO TRACK CONCESSION AND SENIOR OPAL USERS

NO MORE UNAVOIDABLE MASS DATA COLLECTION.

Gold or Silver Opal cards holders (seniors and concessions respectively) are currently required to register their cards, generating a compulsory activity statement. This gives the State Government access to 18 months of the user’s travel data. A tribunal has found that this breaches privacy law after a NSW resident accused Transport NSW of collecting more data than it needed to.