‘Extraordinarily unambitious’: Greens pressure over privacy bill


Brandon How
Reporter

The Greens are alarmed by the federal government’s “extraordinarily unambitious” update to Australia’s privacy laws and have called for additional personal information protections to be baked into the bill before it passes.

Some of the amendments the party wants to see inserted in the bill include the regulation of online tracking technologies, individualisation that underpins recommender algorithms and targeted ads, the use of location data, and face and voice printing.

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