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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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[Australia] Government to overhaul privacy laws, including opting out of advertising, a right to be forgotten, and new rules for small businesses (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Hopefully by "require an entity to delete or de-identify their personal information." They mean we get to choose and not the people supposedly doing the deleting. Cos otherwise they will "de-identify" and we all know that means piss all in reality.