Labor’s privacy reforms the ‘tip of the iceberg’

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Substantive changes were left out of Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus’ first tranche of privacy reforms, which Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind says means she can’t deal with the vast majority of consumer complaints. With small business exempted from the Privacy Act, Ms Kind said she could not see “the iceberg underneath the tip of complaints”, while a fall in project funding this year meant fewer staff to pursue existing complaints.

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