The Albanese Government risks burdening Australian small businesses with more complexity and costs in their response to a review of the Privacy Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shadow Attorney-General Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash said: \u201cIt would be appalling but not surprising if Labor’s new privacy regime targets small businesses by imposing more complexity and costs at a time when they are already struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Government\u2019s own paper acknowledges that privacy laws \u201cdisproportionately and unreasonably\u201d burden small businesses \u2013 but it has decided to impose those burdens anyway,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe all want better protection for our information, but we\u2019re talking about imposing a complex and difficult regulatory regime on hairdressers, nail salons and mechanics, and potentially making them pay civil penalties if they make a mistake,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Government has agreed-in-principle that organisations must appoint a senior employee to be responsible for privacy within the entity. How is that going to work for a small business, like a nail salon or a mechanic?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are talking about changing the rules for how we deal with personal information. If we don\u2019t get it right there are potential far-reaching consequences for businesses and families across the country,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe want to know the Government\u2019s proposals will adequately protect Australians’ personal information without creating additional red tape for people who are just trying to get ahead,\u2019\u2019 Senator Cash said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis Government has an ambivalent, bordering on hostile attitude to small businesses. They keep hitting small business with complexity, confusion and costs on multiple fronts – just look at the proposed industrial relations laws\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Albanese Government risks burdening Australian small businesses with more complexity and costs in their response to a review of the Privacy Act. Shadow Attorney-General Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash said: \u201cIt would be appalling but not surprising if Labor’s new privacy regime targets small businesses by imposing more complexity and costs at a time … Continue reading “Albanese government’s new attack on small business”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23167,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23166\/revisions\/23167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}