Productivity tsar pushes back on definitions of privacy
Tom BurtonGovernment editor
A push to establish personal privacy rights could hamper the creation of economic value by businesses using data, productivity tsar Stephen King has warned.
The productivity commissioner’s comments come amid a review of the Privacy Act by the attorney-general’s department, which is being pressed to create a citizen privacy right and a tort to allow compensation for egregious privacy breaches.
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