The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner recently wrapped up a report looking into TikTok's data harvesting practices and it found "no clear and obvious breach of Australian privacy law". Well the commissioner fronted a Senate estimates hearing yesterday and when asked if they did the same tests as the Sydney Morning Herald did regarding TikTok's tracking pixel, which found TikTok does breach privacy laws, the commissioner said "we were basing our inquiries on information provided by TikTok" and is "not doing a forensic examination of the technology at hand". The OAIC is so toothless it can't even do its own tests and relies on TikTok's word for it when publishing a report if TikTok is up to anything dodgy. Fuck me dead, what's even the point?
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