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Google, Meta lobbied Australian officials ahead of privacy-law announcement

By Ryan Cropp ( October 29, 2024, 03:33 GMT | Insight) -- Tech giants including Google and Meta Platforms directly lobbied Australian government officials in the weeks leading up to the unveiling of radically watered-down changes to the country’s privacy laws, documents show. According to documents produced for the Australian Senate, government officials held several meetings between April and August with both the digital platforms and several tech-aligned industry groups. The revelations come as the government faces criticism from both consumer and business groups over its lack of ambition on privacy-law reform, after a long-awaited bill introduced to parliament in September left out the majority of previously proposed changes to the Privacy Act.Tech giants including Google and Meta Platforms directly lobbied Australian government officials in the weeks leading up to the unveiling of radically watered-down changes to the country’s privacy laws in September, documents show....

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