Opinion: As a hostage in the Medibank hack, here is my list of demands | Peter Lewis
No one wants to create a seller’s market in hacked data, but we do need to recognise the cost that some of the victims will pay in standing up to the hackers.
So before we close the book on this hack and move on, as one of the hostages, I want to table my own list of demands to those we elect to protect us:Of course, the government is moving fast to strengthen the gates after the data stallion has bolted. Businesses need to factor in the cost of poor data handling into their business operations, and significant increases in the size of penalties are welcome.
Australian privacy laws have not had a significant redux in four decades, that’s before the internet really became a thing. We lag behind Europe and the US by not even recognising the scope of data collection and the myriad ways it can be used., but these breaches need to turbocharge that passage, with reforms no later than early next year.
Around the world, we see how the models of surveillance capitalism are tearing democracies apart and pitting citizens against each other. These platforms are loaded weapons and their owners need to take greater responsibility.the event, particularly when the public has been damaged. Indeed, the first decade of the 21st century was profoundly shaped byto deal with the threat of ideologically based terrorism.
Ironically, this move into monitoring web traffic and metadata provided the business template that has driven the rise of the major platforms where our behaviour is monitored, rendered, and repurposed.Now that “terrorists” have moved online, the government needs to show similar resolve.The Opinion newsletter is a weekly wrap of views that will challenge, champion and inform your own.
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