#43 The privacy blindspot

This week, Arj and Jordan mark Human Rights Day (Dec 10) with an argument for making human rights a more central focus in Australia's public policy and reform discussions about privacy.

The discussion offers a useful framing for analysing a recent decision by EU regulators against Meta's use of personalised advertising without explicit consent, a ruling expected to strike at the heart of the tech giant's business models.

They also discuss how stronger privacy laws that make the acquisition of "third-party data" more difficult might be spurring a trend towards new reward schemes and wellbeing apps in the health sector, which the ACCC has warned are creating "big honeypots" of sensitive data.

Links:

Jordan's oped about privacy and human rights (InnovationAus) https://www.innovationaus.com/the-blindspot-in-australias-approach-to-privacy-reform/

Human Rights Day https://www.un.org/en/observances/human-rights-day

EU set to bar Meta from ads based on personal data (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-raises-concerns-over-metas-targeted-ad-model-wsj-2022-12-06/

Meta’s behavioral ads will finally face GDPR privacy reckoning in January (TechCrunch) https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/06/meta-gdpr-forced-consent-edpb-decisions/

Cyber risk in data honeypots from health insurance app craze: ACCC (The Australian - paywalled) https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/financial-services/cyber-risk-in-data-honeypots-from-health-insurance-app-craze-accc/news-story/e98bf187286252a0f355980ef77c8cbd

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