Lack of data privacy a showstopper for the digital economy
A new survey has found overwhelming distrust in business collection and use of personal data, the central issue of a major privacy review.
People have a profound distrust of how business and government collect and use their data.
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The release this week of survey data showing nine out of 10 Australians have serious privacy concerns about the collection, sharing and use of personal data by businesses is a big wake-up call about how profoundly broken Australia s privacy regime is.
If data is the oil of the 21st century, this deep distrust citizens and consumers have about business and government protections for sharing and integrating data reveals just how unfit for purpose the current privacy laws are as Australia seeks to be a leading digital economy.