02 August 2011

Australian firms could be held responsible for #hacker breaches

This change formed part of discussions on Monday between Privacy Minister Brendan O'Connor and a lobby group that wants to subject companies and journalists to criminal penalties for privacy breaches.

The talks covered the possibility of using the government's proposed privacy tort to sue companies when criminal computer hackers breach firewalls and other security measures to steal data.

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