[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)

posted 1 year ago

tavu@sopuli.xyz

australia@aussie.zone

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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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Whirlybird@aussie.zone

19 points

1 year ago

Cool, but our governments have passed some of the absolute worst privacy laws in the world so this means basically nothing.

Our ISPs are forced to log all the metadata about everything you do on your internet service, and the government can basically just request it for any reason they desire.

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OnlyAwfulNamesLeft@lemmy.dbzer0.com

2 points

1 year ago

Federal law enforcement agencies can request app Devs put backdoors into their apps, so the cops can steal data. What’s more, the Devs aren’t allowed to tell anyone that they have done so.

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Whirlybird@aussie.zone

1 point

1 year ago

Yep, and that makes literally no sense as any code I do has to go through a peer review and be checked off by 2 other devs, who would catch the back door. Our government has no idea how technology works.

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