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Privacy Commissioner Rejects Meta’s Push to Weaken Australia’s Privacy Laws for AI

Meta argued that Australia is ‘out of step with international norms’ regarding privacy regulations.
Privacy Commissioner Rejects Meta’s Push to Weaken Australia’s Privacy Laws for AI
A smartphone and a computer screen displaying the logos of the Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and their parent company Meta in Toulouse, southwestern France, on Jan. 12, 2023. Lionel Bovaventure/AFP via Getty Images
Alfred Bui
Alfred Bui
7/20/2025|Updated: 7/20/2025
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Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind has rejected tech giant Meta’s proposal that Australia relax its privacy regulations to speed up development of AI.

Meta has recently made a submission (pdf) to an inquiry on digital technologies and the harvesting of personal data, where the company argued that Australia is “out of step with international norms” regarding privacy regulations.
Alfred Bui
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Alfred Bui is an Australian reporter based in Melbourne and focuses on local and business news. He is a former small business owner and has two master’s degrees in business and business law. Contact him at [email protected].
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