“Our #privacy #law is dangerously out of date. It was largely drafted before the internet, let alone the age of #ArtificialIntelligence," he said.

"If you can update our #PrivacyLaw, that's probably the single biggest step you could take to protect #Australians from their personal information being used against them in the age of #AI." — Professor #EdSantow

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