Theft of Privacy

I have started this blog to defend my privacy and that of my family. Also I wish to use it to increase awareness about the effect that sexual abuse has on women concerned.
Although it has been 10 years now since I was raped, last year my home was repeatedly broken into and my personal information and intellectual property were stolen. I cannot imagine why.

The Human Rights Act (2004) provides that all individuals have the right not to have their privacy, family, home or correspondence interfered with unlawfully or arbitrarily or to have their reputation unlawfully attacked.
In 1980 the Australian Government ratified The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Article 17 states No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interferences with (their) privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on (their) honour and reputation.

The Victorian Law Reform Commission defines the right of privacy as the right
not to be turned into an object or thing
and the right not to be deprived of the capacity to form and develop relationships
(Australian Law Reform Commission 2007 1.50)
This is a right that everyone would take for granted
but should you?
The Australian Law Reform Commission estimated that there are at least 100 websites containing images of people caught showering or undressing (Australian Law Reform Commission 2007 p.376).
That's alot of websites. All containing images of people who have had their privacy invaded and no doubt most of these people are totally unaware that they are even on these websites.
"The small size of cameras and the advent of mobile telephone cameras made it easier to take photographs of others without their knowledge or consent" (Australian Law Reform Commission 2007 8.20).
Spy cameras and pinhole cameras have been around for many years but they are even more compact nowadays. It is quite possible to hide one in someones home because most people would not expect cameras to be hidden in their homes(Stalking goes high tech 2009 The Futurist May-June p.14) and yet there are those 100 websites containing precisely such images.

As I mentioned above my private information has been stolen. How much of it has been stolen and how it is being used I do not know. The only information about myself that I have ever made available to the public is the Sydney Morning Herald article "The Day I was Raped" and this blog.

The reference for these quotes is
Australian Government
Australian Law Reform Commission
Review of Australian Privacy Law
Discussion Paper 72
September 2007

Response to Article

"'At 5am on July 8, 1999, Helena Kauppi was beaten and raped at knife-point.' SMH Sept 6 2008
What awful reading. Well written. Thank you for your courage and contribution to humanity."
Micheal Kennedy