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A parliamentary report into regulation surrounding the use of drones has recommended that Australia consider creating a tort of privacy invasion – something ruled out by the country's attorney-general George Brandis as recently as April. In an example of the strange bedfellows politics can make, privacy activists and farming …

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  1. Martin Budden Silver badge

    someone's gotta do it

    If the Office of Fair Trading (or similar) don't bother monitoring & enforcing free-range labelling laws, is it really surprising that others are taking matters into their own hands?

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Ag gag

    Here's why. Won't somebody think of the poor farmers?

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  3. Paul 129
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    Why privacy?

    Being a manageable workplace risk shouldn't Safe Work Australia be involved...

    What could go wrong!

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