The federal government will this week introduce legislation that radically increases the penalties to $50 million and more against companies for repeated or serious privacy breaches. The law changes come in the wake of high-profile breaches at telecommunications carrier Optus and the private health insurer Medibank that resulted in the theft of millions of Australian’s…

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