Article 6AN8D Consumer advocates reject media calls to preserve exemptions to Australian privacy law

Consumer advocates reject media calls to preserve exemptions to Australian privacy law

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Paul Karp
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Centre for Responsible Technology supportive' of proposed reforms, calling them the first significant upgrade of privacy laws in four decades'

Consumer digital rights advocates have rejected media companies' call to preserve their exemption to privacy law, warning that commercial models should not be put ahead of public interest.

Peter Lewis, the director of the Australia Institute's Centre for Responsible Technology, said it was disappointing" that the Right to Know coalition set up with the laudable goal of protecting journalists and whistleblowers is now being deployed to prosecute Big Media's business interests at the expense of the public they purport to serve".

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