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Tom Burton

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The Albanese government has squibbed at nearly 40 key privacy reforms and given in to an outdated argument that Australia is a nation of shopkeepers.

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 was government editor at The Australian Financial Review.

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