Australians will be afforded stronger rights around data consent and transparency, and companies should be unable to discriminate against someone who declines to share their data in a proposed overhaul of the Privacy Act. The proposed changes, however, will also demand more compliance from companies that use and store data, and could lead them to pass on these costs as increased prices.
A total of 116 changes to the were proposed in a report released by the Attorney General's department (GDPR), which came into effect in May 2018.