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Worried your address, birth date or health data is being sold? You should be – and the law isn’t protecting you

  • Written by: Katharine Kemp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Australians don’t know and can’t control how data brokers are spreading their personal information. This is the core finding of a newly released report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

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