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Labor’s plan for protecting your privacy: hope the internet disappears

The Albanese government has squibbed at nearly 40 key privacy reforms and given in to an outdated argument that Australia is a nation of shopkeepers.

Tom BurtonGovernment editor

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There are more than 2.5 million reasons why the government’s privacy reforms are meaningless.

For more than a decade and a half, successive reviews of Australia’s antiquated analogue-era privacy regime have pointed to the absurdity of exempting the 95 per cent of businesses with annual turnovers of less than $3 million from national privacy rules.

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Tom Burton has held senior editorial and publishing roles with The Mandarin, The Sydney Morning Herald and as Canberra bureau chief for The Australian Financial Review. He has won three Walkley awards. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at tom.burton@afr.com

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