Centre for Responsible Technology ‘supportive’ of proposed reforms, calling them the ‘first significant upgrade of privacy laws in four decades’
media companies’ call to preserve their exemption to privacy lawPeter 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”.
“In the intervening period the business models around the commercial exploitation of personal data have grown exponentially as have the human consequences of these models,” it said. The Centre for Responsible Technology noted privacy law reform was central to the competition regulator’s 2019 digital platforms inquiry, which led to the creation of the world-first news media bargaining code, helping media companies reap millions in revenue from Facebook and Google.
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