Zull: "It seemed to us to be a bit unusual that there was no draft legislation at this point. We asked whether we would expect to have that. The answer was, 'Yes, we would expect that in due course'."

Anthony Bendall, acting privacy commissioner: "I am not expressing that it is impossible that that might happen, but at this point of the discussion paper there has not been enough evidence given that either of these types of proposals are necessary for the purposes that have been set out or that the way they are proposed is the least intrusive and most protective that it could be."

Bendall: "...my impression is that it turns on its head the premise that underlies privacy legislation and the whole concept of privacy that you only collect and retain information that is necessary and that you only do that in the least intrusive way."

Bendall: "It assumes that everybody's privacy should be invaded to the extent that that retention happens, on the off-chance, and even if it turns out that it is useful, it would be useful in a tiny proportion of cases."