As country considers ‘right to be forgotten’, firm says it would be more effective to create legal obligations for sites hosting information
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As Australia considers the “right to be forgotten”, Google’s chief privacy officer says the law should target websites that host information, instead of the search engines that make it easy to find.
Keith Enright’s visit to Australia coincides with a spotlight on digital privacy after massive data breaches at Latitude, Medibank and Optus. In their wake, the Albanese government announced a raft of proposed changes to the Privacy Act designed to bring the law into the digital age.
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