Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim will not appeal the Federal Court of Australia's decision regarding the Administrative Appeals Tribunal's "limiting the ‘metadata’ Telstra is compelled to hand over to an individual if that individual requests access to it," Computerworld reports. Pilgrim had originally appealed a ruling in the case of reporter Ben Grubb and his attempts to access his Telstra-held metadata. Telstra said it would provide only some of the requested information and brought the case to the AAT, which agreed with Telstra's decision. In January, the federal court decided not to overturn AAT's ruling. Pilgrim said that the court's move “provides important guidance as to what is ‘personal information’ in the terms of the Privacy Act 1988" and that pursuing the case further wasn't necessary as "Obtaining clarity for business and agencies about the definition of personal information was my primary interest in the appeal.”
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