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Expanded remit for unit overseeing Australian watchdog's move to new privacy rules

By James Panichi ( March 24, 2025, 06:22 GMT | Insight) -- The Australian privacy watchdog’s newly established unit, designed to manage the transition to the government’s recent legislative changes to the Privacy Act, will also oversee the implementation of the country’s rules imposing age restrictions on social-media platforms. The unit will be known internally as Prism — the Privacy Reform Implementation and Social Media taskforce. It had previously been referred to simply as the privacy reform implementation taskforce.A new unit of Australia’s privacy watchdog designed to manage the transition to the government’s recent legislative changes to the Privacy Act will also oversee the implementation of the country’s rules imposing age restrictions on social-media platforms....

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