{"id":22799,"date":"2026-04-22T07:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/rental-platform-unnecessarily-collected-the-data-of-millions-of-australians-privacy-commissioner-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T05:37:37","slug":"rental-platform-unnecessarily-collected-the-data-of-millions-of-australians-privacy-commissioner-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/rental-platform-unnecessarily-collected-the-data-of-millions-of-australians-privacy-commissioner-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rental platform unnecessarily collected the data of millions of Australians, privacy commissioner finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2Apply\u2019s over-collection of personal information adds to the power of the real estate industry in the competitive rental market, Carly Kind says<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2026\/apr\/22\/australia-news-live-ndis-savings-cuts-mark-butler-aged-care-cost-of-living-budget-jim-chalmers-labor-coalition-ntwnfb\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An online rental platform has been urged to stop collecting users\u2019 personal information after the Australian privacy commissioner found the gathering of \u201cexcessive\u201d data compounded the vulnerability of tenants amid the housing crisis.<\/p>\n<p>RentTech platforms are increasingly used by real estate agents in Australia for people applying for rental properties to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/feb\/06\/property-housing-rental-online-applications-data-privacy\">submit applications and supporting documentation<\/a>. The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute has identified 57 different rent platforms operating in Australia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/22\/2apply-rental-platform-excessive-tenant-data\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/95374b7f7a0d89df4409d018af7eb7b1a2bf645a\/327_0_5668_4536\/master\/5668.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f70b5f733f78f2009c638cee1973e63a\" title=\"Rental platform unnecessarily collected the data of millions of Australians, privacy commissioner finds\" \/>2Apply\u2019s over-collection of personal information adds to the power of the real estate industry in the competitive rental market, Carly Kind says<\/p>\n<p>Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>An online rental platform has been urged to stop collecting users\u2019 personal information after the Australian privacy commissioner found the gathering of \u201cexcessive\u201d data compounded the vulnerability of tenants amid the housing crisis.<br \/>\nRentTech platforms are increasingly used by real estate agents in Australia for people applying for rental properties to submit applications and supporting documentation. The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute has identified 57 different rent platforms operating in Australia. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2Apply\u2019s over-collection of personal information adds to the power of the real estate industry in the competitive rental market, Carly Kind says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast An online rental platform has been urged to stop collecting users\u2019 personal information &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/rental-platform-unnecessarily-collected-the-data-of-millions-of-australians-privacy-commissioner-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rental platform unnecessarily collected the data of millions of Australians, privacy commissioner finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}