Part 1: General Privacy Protections Section 7: Monetary penalties for certain unlawful interceptions
This section provides for the IPC to impose fines (via a monetary penalty notice) where unlawful interception has taken place but where the person responsible was not intending to intercept a communication.
Example:
A company that develops and uses a piece of software to collect information about Wi-Fi hotspots but does not realise that it is also intercepting content which is being sent from non-secure Wi-Fi devices.
	Subsections (3) and (4) set out the conditions which must be met for IPC to issue a monetary penalty notice. The IPC may not issue a monetary penalty notice if he or she considers that the person has committed an offence of unlawful interception i.e. the interception was intentional.