The day after Privacy Minister Brendan O'Connor published an issues paper calling for the creation of new laws to give Australians a civil right to action for certain privacy breaches, The Australian criticised it, describing the effort as "disappointing" and encouraging the federal government to find a more balanced approached. "There is community consensus that privacy needs protection," the report states, "the only question is how best to achieve that goal." The paper says the federal government should be coming up with "a way of protecting privacy that achieves its goal without inflicting unexpected damage on other valuable interests."
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