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[Australia] Government to overhaul privacy laws, including opting out of advertising, a right to be forgotten, and new rules for small businesses (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/4017115

Related material, not all as optimistic as the ABC news article:

Video interview with Dr Katharine Kemp.

Government response to the Privacy Act Review Report.

Govt kicks Privacy Act can down the road - Only commits to a handful of review recommendations..

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds great, but knowing something about how screwed Australians are for privacy I'm sure there's a caveat. Probably have to have a digital ID 100% verifiable human citizen before you can use it. Allow yourself to be AI tracked online and off 24/7 to get rid of some ads. If people did a bit of research you will find you can already do these things and more to increase your security and protect your own privacy. The governments don't like that though. If it's something like the EU's GDPR with no caveats then it will be an improvement.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Its the Australian government there's going to be so many loopholes that its essentially pointless then when people ask for a real version they gonna point to it and go look we already have this stop complaining.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The caveat is it doesn't apply to political parties.