Giving the Information Commissioner powers to search for and seize documents would be a “significant regulatory overreach”, a major media coalition has warned.
The media outlets took issue with 12 of the Attorney General’s Department’s recommendations. They urged the government to leave the exemption for journalism in its current form, which allows media organisations to self-regulate and follow a published list of privacy standards.
The government also flagged introducing the ability for individuals to take legal action over invasions of privacy, through a director right of action or a statutory tort. ARTK said if these were passed, journalists and media outlets should, again, be exempt or it would undermine news reporting, put a significant burden courts and lead to “negative public outcomes”.
“The use of the tort in this way by individuals as a sword to suppress information inevitably leads to a chilling effect on reporting and significantly limits the media’s ability to seek our and disseminate information of public concern,” ARTK wrote.
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