Australian Government stalls on privacy proposals
The Australian Government has once again delayed taking any action on online privacy in its official response to a report from the Australian Parliamentary Cyber-Safety Committee.
Some six months after the committee issued a range of recommendations on improving online privacy, the Government has opted to stall on almost all of them. The Cyber-Safety report made 32 recommendations, the most significant for the IT industry concerned nine proposal to tighten privacy protections.
All but two were “noted” and tagged for the Government’s long-running separate review of the 2008 ALRC report on privacy reforms. The two recommendations the Government accepted urged the development of strong privacy protections for Australians online overseas; and that Australia's Privacy Commissioner develop guidelines for industry adoption on what constitutes consent for online services.
