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Big Tech can't dictate privacy-law updates, top Australian minister says

( July 21, 2025, 07:01 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Australia won’t allow international tech companies to dictate how the country should update its privacy laws, a key minister has said. During a television interview, Australian Attorney General Michelle Rowland said that, as the government considers the second tranche of changes to the 1988 Privacy Act, it wouldn't have “our privacy reforms dictated by multinational tech giants who are trying to assert that you can either have innovation or you can have privacy protection, but not both. I reject that completely.” Rowland told Sky News that the next raft of changes would provide a “basis for both innovation and the protection of people’s personal data.”The transcript of Attorney General Michelle Rowland's comments follow: ...

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