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[Australia] Government to overhaul privacy laws, including opting out of advertising, a right to be forgotten, and new rules for small businesses (www.abc.net.au)
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[-] yoz@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Lol Australia is one of the five eyes countries who spy on their own citizens.

[-] OnlyAwfulNamesLeft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Very important legal distinction here: we have laws about spying on our own citizens, so we let our allies do it for us, while we openly spy on our allies citizens, and then share that information back with each other. Totally different bro! /s

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