{"id":7127,"date":"2022-09-24T08:38:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/24\/optus-cyber-attack-company-opposed-changes-to-privacy-laws-to-give-customers-more-rights-over-their-data\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T08:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:38:45","slug":"optus-cyber-attack-company-opposed-changes-to-privacy-laws-to-give-customers-more-rights-over-their-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/24\/optus-cyber-attack-company-opposed-changes-to-privacy-laws-to-give-customers-more-rights-over-their-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Optus cyber-attack: company opposed changes to privacy laws to give customers more rights over their data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its submission to Privacy Act review telco said giving people right to erase personal data would involve \u2018significant\u2019 hurdles and costs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/sep\/22\/optus-data-breach-who-is-affected-what-has-been-taken-and-what-should-you-do\">Optus data breach: who is affected, what has been taken and what should you do?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/sep\/22\/customers-personal-data-stolen-as-optus-suffers-massive-cyber-attack\">Customers\u2019 personal data stolen as Optus suffers massive cyber-attack<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free news app<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/sep\/23\/morning-mail-newsletter-best-daily-news-email-guardian-australia-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning email briefing<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Optus has repeatedly opposed a proposed change to privacy laws that would give customers the right to request their data be destroyed, with the telco arguing there were \u201csignificant hurdles\u201d to implementing such a system and it would come at \u201csignificant cost\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the company revealed it had suffered a massive cyber-attack in which the personal information of customers was stolen, including names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, addresses, and passport and driver\u2019s licence numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/sep\/23\/morning-mail-newsletter-best-daily-news-email-guardian-australia-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/sep\/24\/optus-cyber-attack-company-opposed-changes-to-privacy-laws-to-give-customers-more-rights-over-their-data\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b8fd771e15aea8a5fcf5578730e3635c6d14e5cf\/0_198_4500_2701\/master\/4500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e85da6d713639f872121eb9277495c5b\" title=\"Optus cyber-attack: company opposed changes to privacy laws to give customers more rights over their data\" \/>In its submission to Privacy Act review telco said giving people right to erase personal data would involve \u2018significant\u2019 hurdles and costs<\/p>\n<p>Optus data breach: who is affected, what has been taken and what should you do?<br \/>\nCustomers\u2019 personal data stolen as Optus suffers massive cyber-attack<br \/>\nGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>Optus has repeatedly opposed a proposed change to privacy laws that would give customers the right to request their data be destroyed, with the telco arguing there were \u201csignificant hurdles\u201d to implementing such a system and it would come at \u201csignificant cost\u201d.<br \/>\nOn Thursday, the company revealed it had suffered a massive cyber-attack in which the personal information of customers was stolen, including names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, addresses, and passport and driver\u2019s licence numbers.<br \/>\nSign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its submission to Privacy Act review telco said giving people right to erase personal data would involve \u2018significant\u2019 hurdles and costs Optus data breach: who is affected, what has been taken and what should you do? Customers\u2019 personal data stolen as Optus suffers massive cyber-attack Get our free news app, morning email briefing or &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/24\/optus-cyber-attack-company-opposed-changes-to-privacy-laws-to-give-customers-more-rights-over-their-data\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Optus cyber-attack: company opposed changes to privacy laws to give customers more rights over their data<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7128,"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\/7127"}],"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=7127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}