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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)

submitted 9 months ago by tavu@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Related material, not all as optimistic as the ABC news article:

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[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The title is misleading, the law will not let you to "opt out of advertising" completely but from using your private data for targeted advertising. So it's a progress on better privacy but the best solution still seems to be using uBlock Origin with proper subscriptions to just block all the ads and tracking scripts.

[–] tavu@sopuli.xyz 10 points 9 months ago

I agree. It's just the title ABC News had on its article.