{"id":874844,"date":"2026-08-31T09:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874844\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:18:13","slug":"australia-news-as-it-happened-labor-unveils-privacy-law-reforms-crackdown-on-smart-glasses-technology-43-australians-remain-missing-in-nepal-as-floods-death-toll-rises-above-800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/874844\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news as it happened: Labor unveils privacy law reforms, crackdown on smart glasses technology; 43 Australians remain missing in Nepal as flood\u2019s death toll rises above 800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greens have expressed their qualified support for the Albanese government\u2019s new privacy laws, calling them a \u201cmodest step forward\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But the minor party is also saying the proposed actions on <a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/politics\/federal\/privacy-laws-target-ai-smart-glasses-right-to-erase-australians-data-20260830-p60stl.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smart glasses<\/a> don\u2019t go far enough.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Greens senator David Shoebridge.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4247848d46d83c762649503a0bd75a8701e1b2e6.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Greens senator David Shoebridge.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are substantial gaps in the draft bill including the lack of action to prevent individuals using \u2018smart\u2019 glasses to collect and broadcast other people\u2019s personal information,\u201d the party said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Greens\u2019 digital rights spokesman David Shoebridge also said the right to erasure laws fell short of what was needed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is limited only to platforms with $500 million or more in revenue, or 2.5 million monthly users, [it] leaves out every small app and every emerging glasses startup building exactly this kind of surveillance product,\u201d Shoebridge said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Greens will be pushing to strengthen these changes, with an open door to the government to work through positive amendments, and at the same time press ahead for an urgent 12-month import ban on covert recordable devices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Greens have expressed their qualified support for the Albanese government\u2019s new privacy laws, calling them a \u201cmodest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-874844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}