Australia’s new privacy laws: The winners and losers
Australia’s years as the wild west of data protection are officially over, with the Albanese Government last week announcing the most significant overhaul to our privacy laws since the 1980s.
As Rebecca White, the Queensland agency director of Revium, explains, there are those who benefit from the new changes, but there are also those who will lose out, and lose out hard.
Last week, the Federal Government released their response to the Privacy Act Review, agreeing to legislate 38 of its 116 recommendations as they have been proposed, including the right for Australians to sue for “serious” breaches.
The report details in-principle agreement to legislate 68 more recommendations after some additional refinement and consultation.
