The Optus Breach Has Revealed A Comatose Government Stewardship Of Ordinary Citizen ’s Personal Data Privacy!

There is going to have to be a major rethink of all our laws surrounding personal data privacy ….Out of the Optus breach we have learnt there is little or no control on the amount and scope of data that can be held on each of us and for how long it can be kept – let alone how we can get to see what is held.That all needs to be clarified, codified, consulted, agreed and legislated.As a typical piece of nonsense who knew all this regarding politicians who I would not trust to hold my bus ticket?Big parties are watching you – and your dataPETER VAN ONSELEN12:00AM October 1, 2022Both major parties are pouring scorn on Optus for its customer-data breach, rightly so. If reports are accurate that the company ’s defences weren’t up to scratch, that’s simply not good enough.We are also hearing calls for Privacy Act reforms to better protect citizens whose personal information is retained by businesses. There ’s a growing clamour as politicians share their anger and concern over what has happened.But are these politicians hypocrites? Yes, they absolutely are.Major political parties operate sophisticated voter-tracking software without the consent of voters and their databases contain enormous amounts of personal information about all of us. Every major-party member of parliament has voter-tracking software operating in their office and they won ’t let you see it even if you ask.Labor ’s database is named Campaign Central (previously Electrac), the Coalition’s databa...
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