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Comment: Why Australia's privacy revamp could use New Zealand's overhaul as a blueprint

By Laurel Henning ( December 27, 2020, 22:00 GMT | Comment) -- There’s no question that Australia’s overhaul of its 1988 privacy legislation is long overdue. Yet as lawmakers embark on what is likely to be a conceptually and politically fraught process, they may want to look across the Tasman Sea for inspiration. New Zealand’s revamped privacy rules have ticked a number of boxes that will be relevant to Australia, including adequacy with EU privacy rules, stronger privacy enforcement powers for the watchdog and tougher penalties for those misusing personal data.This year, Australia embarked on what is likely to be its most significant overhaul of privacy rules since its now outdated legislation was first introduced in 1988. But if lawmakers need guidance to work through the complex and politically fraught endeavor, they need not look that far afield....

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