Brian May wrote:
> > Dropbox and Gmail to share the files - not what we want. Among other
> > things
> > we'd like to have the files stay within Australian jurisdiction.
>
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>If the files were securely encrypted, does it matter that they stay in
>Australia?

IANAL, but my understanding is a definite "Yes" to this.

National Privacy Principle 9 applies even to encrypted data, because there's no hard and fast definition of what "encryption" means.

NPP #4 requires us to take "reasonable steps" to secure information, and encryption is certainly one of those steps, for what the IT profession generally considers reasonable.

For example, if I simply password protected an MS Word 97 document, there's no way in this day and age I could defend that as being "reasonable" encryption.