The Greens are alarmed by the federal government’s “extraordinarily unambitious” update to Australia’s privacy laws and have called for additional personal information protections to be baked into the bill before it passes.
Some of the amendments the party wants to see inserted in the bill include the regulation of online tracking technologies, individualisation that underpins recommender algorithms and targeted ads, the use of location data, and face and voice printing.
The Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill, introduced last week, will introduce a long-awaited statutory tort for serious privacy breaches, transparency requirements for automated decisions, and more teeth for the privacy watchdog.
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