Government to re-think how much data they force companies to store

You know how when Optus and Medicare got popped and we were all like, "why the fuck do these companies hang on to all this data???". Well as part of the 2023-30 Cyber Security Strategy released this week, the government realised that it's one of the reasons businesses hold on to so much data for so long, with various laws requiring it, particularly the mandatory data retention legislation. As a result, the government will review "federal legislative data-retention requirements to determine whether existing provisions are appropriately balanced, with a view to minimising or simplifying retention requirements". It's too early to pre-empt any major changes, but at least they've realised the problem - unnecessary data hoarding. You can't leak what you don't have!