Corporate groups asked Australian government to split up privacy bill
By Ryan Cropp ( December 16, 2024, 04:41 GMT | Insight) -- A top Australian corporate industry group held a meeting with a key minister to request the government divide a planned overhaul of the country’s privacy laws into a series of legislative tranches — a course of action the government embraced just under four months later. Documents show that groups representing businesses, banks and digital platforms wrote to Attorney General Mark Dreyfus in early May to express “fundamental concerns” with the economic modeling of proposed changes to the country’s Privacy Act. In a detailed appendix to the letter, industry groups including the Tech Council of Australia requested that the proposed new laws instead be legislated in a “phased” or “sequential” manner to allow time for further consultation.A top Australian corporate industry group held a meeting with a key minister to request the government divide a planned overhaul of the country’s privacy laws into a series of legislative tranches — a course of action the government embraced just under four months later....
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