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Comment: Australia's budget cements consumer-law dominance in digital-platform regulation

By Laurel Henning and James Panichi ( October 8, 2020, 06:41 GMT | Comment) -- At a time when the defense of individuals' right to privacy has never been more newsworthy, Australia’s privacy watchdog has suffered a funding setback, with the government providing the overstretched regulator with no significant funding increase for the coming financial year. In contrast, Australia’s competition and consumer regulator has been offered a substantial leg-up in its fight against global digital platforms. The reason for this disparity is that the fight for privacy is being spearheaded by consumer law, with the comparatively weak privacy rules left to languish.Finding out how much money Australia’s key regulators will have at their disposal over coming years is no mean feat: the documents that accompanied this week’s federal budget painted a complex and sometimes confusing picture, and the agencies themselves appeared to be grappling with the numbers....

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