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Comment: How Meta's risky Australian court challenge could speed up privacy-law revamp

By James Panichi ( September 23, 2022, 02:37 GMT | Comment) -- Meta Platforms’ appeal to Australia’s top court over the Cambridge Analytica data-breach lawsuit has one objective: to ensure that Facebook’s US-registered parent company doesn’t need to get involved. If the High Court of Australia bid fails, the country’s privacy enforcer will know that the extraterritoriality provisions of the Privacy Act give it all the cover needed to take on tech giants; if Meta succeeds, the case may prompt Australian lawmakers to speed up plans to update the country’s aging privacy rules.When global digital giants are targeted by a lawsuit in Australia, the go-to response of their legal teams is to challenge local courts’ right to get involved in the first place....

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