Normann Witzleb
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Legal academic at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Monash University adjunct. Researching in privacy law, data protection and the law of obligations.
Hong Kong SAR
Joined September 2018
(7/7) The Government describes the Bill as an "important first step in ensuring Australians’ privacy is properly respected and protected" – an implicit admission that it leaves much unfinished business until after the next election.
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(6/7) The Bill creates two new doxxing offences where an individual’s personal data is published online to menace or harass them and where this occurs to target them as a member of a group distinguished by race, ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity.
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(5/7) The Bill requires the Privacy Comm'r to develop within the next two years a children’s online privacy code that will be binding on online services likely to be accessed by children, i.e. under 18-year-olds. This would follow the model of the UK Age Appropriate Design Code.
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(4/7) It includes a new statutory tort for ‘serious invasions of privacy’. The tort follows the 2014 ALRC model but – in a major departure to placate the media – contains an exemption for collection or publication of journalistic material.
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(3/7) It gives the Privacy Commissioner greater enforcement powers, in particular in relation to civil penalties, and new mandates, including enhanced code-making powers.
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(2/7) The Bill adopts most reforms the Govt agreed to in its 2023 response but omits some of the stronger measures proposed in the review, including a new general "fair and reasonable" requirement for data handling, and the removal of the small business and political exemptions.
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Australia's privacy reform bill has been introduced to Parliament - a short thread (1/7):
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Please join us for the upcoming annual conference of the @CCTL_CUHKLaw Obligations Lab Asia on ‘Private Law in Greater China: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’ (hybrid), 10 May 2024. Registrations now open, full program: https://t.co/qzmF3VclSN
@CUHKLaw #lawconf #privatelaw
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Are you interested in the latest developments in #tortlaw and #climatechange? Please join us for this seminar by Australian experts Tina Popa, Anne Kallies, Vanessa Johnston and @niaemmanouil, this Friday, 17 Nov. Register @ https://t.co/2HCzdtnp7D
@CUHKLaw @CCTL_CUHKLaw
law.cuhk.edu.hk
Register Increasingly, the global community is recognising that climate change can cause and contribute to a range of harms and hazards that impact the personal safety and property of vulnerable...
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The government merely 'noted' the proposals for an unqualified right to opt out of targeted advertising for adults, the removal of the political exemption and on stronger protections of de-identified information, which means all of these are off the table. (5/5)
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and new rights of access, explanation and erasure. We also still need to hold our breath on the direct right of action and the statutory privacy tort. (4/5)
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E.g. an updated definition of private information, removal of the small business and employee records exemptions, a new requirement for data processing to be fair and reasonable, strengthening consent requirements, improving protections for children (3/5) and
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... it's important to note: Many of the most important proposals are in the 'agreed-in-principle' basket, meaning that will be further explored and the government made no commitment to introduce them. This includes many of the most effective (and contentious) reforms... (2/5)
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The Australian government has published its response to the Privacy Act Review Report. The vast majority of proposals in the Report have been agreed to or agreed to in principle but... https://t.co/dDVd152VIO (1/5)
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Registrations are now open for the next annual conference of the @CCTL_CUHKLaw Obligations Lab Asia. Please join us for a high calibre conference on ‘Transformation or Adaptation? #PrivateLaw and New Technologies’ (Online), 12 May 2023 @CUHKLaw
https://t.co/BK7MFc9iiP
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The Privacy Act Review Report has been released today. Was it worth the 2 year wait? Generally yes. Major strides towards bringing Australian data protection law in alignment with international standards.
ag.gov.au
The proposed reforms are aimed at strengthening the protection of personal information and the control individuals have over their information. Stronger privacy protections would support digital...
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Are you working on "Private Law and New Technologies"? We're interested in your paper for the next conference of the Obligations Lab Asia @CCTL_CUHKLaw. CfP out now! Please join us @CUHKLaw #privatelaw #obligationslaw
law.cuhk.edu.hk
Law has an important function in ensuring that the benefits of technological innovation can be fully harnessed and that burdens are fairly distributed. However, there are diverging views on when...
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Please join us for the Obligations Lab Asia annual conference 'Transformation or Adaptation? Private Law and New Technologies' on 12 May 2023 (online/hybrid). Call for Papers out now! @CCTL_CUHKLaw #lawtech
https://t.co/vEhZfznfYZ
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The Castan Centre endorses @DRWaus position, and strongly recommended earlier this year that such exemptions be removed because of the risk of misuse, particularly with the advent of big data analytics. #HumanRights #Privacy
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Promising and refreshing to hear from new A-G on #auslaw #dataprivacy reforms.
afr.com
After more than a decade of stalled reforms, new attorney-general Mark Dreyfus is pledging to bring sweeping reforms to Australia’s anachronistic data privacy laws.
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