back to article Productivity Commish changes mind on control over personal info

Australians won't get an opt-out from broad data collection, if the government adopts recommendations made by the Productivity Commission. Apparently, a campaign of submission-writing nobbled the idea that people need to know or control what's done with their data, because the commission's report makes a full U-turn from its …

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  2. Denarius

    not unexpected

    Concept of citizen or individual as more than a "subject of the Crown" has gone. Simply demonstrates how modern governments represent the people: the energy people, the media people, the industry people and the multinational people if not included before. Hat tip to the ancient Mad Magazine cartoon. Makes John Ralstons Sauls book, The Unconscious Civilisation a wasted warning.

  3. dan1980

    The way our government (and many others) view people is that we - all we do - are resources to serve the almighty Economy.

    That's all that matters to them. If some self-interested industry group with easy access to our supposed representatives can put forward an assertion that removing privacy will yield some benefit to the great Economy then that is all the justification they need.

    Privacy and rights are just not valuable to them because those notions don't benefit the economy and that is their one metric. And, as they place no value on our privacy, they have no qualms about exchanging it for even the flimsiest proposal. What's there to lose, right?

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