Tag: Digital Rights Watch

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Govt data sharing plan ‘violates expectations’

New laws that “fundamentally change” the way the federal government handles the personal data of Australians will have “enormous consequences” for individual privacy, civil and digital rights groups have...

The new Online Safety Bill has been a ‘rush job’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Civil and digital rights groups say the sweeping new Online Safety Bill is a “rush job”, having been introduced to federal parliament just 10 days after government received nearly...

Privacy office faces ‘remarkable’ drop in funding

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal opposition has questioned a “remarkable” drop in support for the national privacy office in the coming years, with the organisation left waiting on whether government funding will...

Privacy office is still ‘severely underfunded’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s regulator for privacy and freedom of information missed all but one of its performance goals in the last year, leading to concerns the agency is “severely underfunded” and...

Encryption laws near a ‘significant turning point’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The recent independent national security monitor’s report on Australia’s anti-encryption powers and the ongoing parliamentary inquiry should be a “significant turning point” for the highly controversial legislation, Digital Rights...

Privacy safeguards useless without funding

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s privacy office “urgently” needs more funding to properly conduct its oversight role of the COVIDSafe contact tracing app, with Labor calling for three standalone commissioners to also be...

Labor in the dark on contact tracing

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Opposition has not been consulted at all on the federal government’s plans for developing a COVID-19 contact tracing app, amid concerns it will “fail” unless privacy and protections...

Digital groups call for COVID app transparency

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is yet to respond to a series of transparency and data security issues surrounding its official COVID-19 information app that have been raised by a number...

Robo-debt reax: Class action looms

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government’s robo-debt about-face was made just two weeks before the legality of the scheme is set to be tested in Federal Court, and the day before the writ...

Labor trusts gov’t on CDR regime

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Consumer Data Right laws are “very complex and messy” and plans to amend them later in the year may lead to further problems, digital rights advocates have said....