Proposed privacy reforms could help Australia play catch-up with other nations. But they fail to tackle targeted ads

  • Written by: Katharine Kemp, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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In the recently released Privacy Act Review Report, the Attorney-General’s Department makes numerous important proposals that could see the legislation, enacted in 1988, begin to catch up to leading privacy laws globally.

Among the positive proposed changes are: more realistic definitions of personal information and consent,...

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