This joint submission by Financial Rights Legal Centre together with Consumer Action Law Centre and Financial Counselling Australia responds to the Attorney-General’s Department Privacy Act Review, Issues Paper, October 2020.
The submission highlights Australia’s need for a safe and secure data environment that puts their privacy ahead of the increasingly rapacious data desires of industry.
It reveals how the pace of technological change towards a data saturated economy, the development of business models and markets centred on the harvesting of surplus behavioural data for predictive purposes, and the multiple, fragmented and haphazard approach to regulating the impacts of these changes has meant that the Privacy Act has become out of date and not fit for purpose in protecting Australian’s privacy rights.
