Australia's digital duty of care should let users sue platforms, rights group says
By Saloni Sinha ( November 2, 2026, 06:50 GMT | Insight) -- Australians should be able to sue online platforms for breaching a proposed digital duty of care, rather than relying entirely on a regulator to enforce the law, a digital rights group said. In an updated joint submission to the proposed 2026 Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill, Digital Rights Watch and Australian legal services firm Wotton Kearney warned that the absence of a private right of action would leave users without recourse if the regulator was under-resourced or slow to act.Australians should be able to sue online platforms for breaching a proposed digital duty of care, rather than relying entirely on a regulator to enforce the law, a digital rights group has said....
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