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[ A mere requirement to declare that you're invading privacy does *not*
represent a 'crackdown'. It's de facto, and arguably de jure,
authorisation of workplace surveillance - 'biometric tracking for all!'.
Well, all except the execs of course.
[ And the increasing US dominance of business values over human values
is inherent in "in consultation with businesses, unions and other
interested parties".
[ Public interest advocates, let alone and employees and contractors
themselves, have so little power that they're overlooked, and if they
bother submitting their analyses and arguments will be ignored.
[ I wonder what happened to the "nation-leading workplace surveillance
laws" enacted by NSw a couple of decades back. Maybe rescinded at the
bidding of a Premier apoplectic about being constrained by a mere law?
That happened in the case of street CCTV, after a straightforward
explanation of the law in a case against the council in Nowra. ]
Workplace monitoring crackdown on the cards in Victoria
Justin Hendry
Innovation Aus
19 November 2025
https://www.innovationaus.com/workplace-monitoring-crackdown-on-the-cards-in-victoria/
The Victorian government has agreed to consider new nation-leading
workplace surveillance laws after a parliamentary inquiry found workers
were lacking adequate protection from monitoring by their employers.
In its response to the year-long inquiry, the government this week said
it would progress work on state-based legislative options that could
require employers to detail any use of keylogging, tracking devices or AI.
But any new laws – which the Liberals and Nationals have already ruled
out supporting – would be developed in consultation with businesses,
unions and other interested parties.
[ Pay-walled ]
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