[1] New privacy provisions to its national policy platform has been added by the Australian Labor Party that would force businesses to obtain consent from customers before hosting personal data offshore.
[2] The amendments would also mean that businesses and other organisations could be banned from hosting data in facilities located in areas that don’t match up with Australian privacy protections.
[3] The party members voted to add four new privacy positions to the Labor platform at the ALP national conference over the weekend.
[Source] Australian Information Technology News – Labor wants customer consent for offshore data storage
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