Howard dumps privacy proposal

[Chris Connolly]

At 16:27 Ian Johnston wrote:

>... snip...
>Hopefully there was thorough and vigorous consideration by Cabinet and its
advisers, before this announcement.

Well I'm not sure about thorough and vigorous. At a SCAG meeting only one
week before this announcement the federal Attorney General was telling the
state Attorneys not to worry about introducing state privacy legislation for
the private sector because the feds would cover it.

Now that the feds have dumped private sector privacy legislation we may be
left with a few pieces of state leg. Not sure that state privacy leg is
appropriate for most new technology businesses esp. online. Australia will
soon be the only developed country without private sector privacy legislation.

Even NZ, Taiwan and Hong Kong have legislation! three of the least
'regulated' countries in the world.

What sort of message are we sending to the spam and cookie factories?

Chris
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