Independents Kate Chaney and David Pocock have accused the Albanese government of letting political parties off the hook by excluding them from its privacy crackdown, while the Coalition has warned of the impact on small business.
While Pocock has said he is “cautiously optimistic” about reforms which include greater protections for children, the refusal to narrow the political exemptions to the Privacy Act has rankled just weeks after Labor complained the referendum no campaign had harvested data from postal votes.
