{"id":278793,"date":"2021-08-18T05:23:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T05:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationaus.com\/?p=21414"},"modified":"2021-08-18T05:23:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T05:23:36","slug":"online-retailers-race-to-the-bottom-on-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/18\/online-retailers-race-to-the-bottom-on-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Online retailers \u2018race to the bottom\u2019 on privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Online retailers offer<\/strong> no genuine competition on privacy to Australian consumers, allowing them to conduct \u201cpervasive\u201d and \u201cunnecessary\u201d data collection, a leading privacy expert has told the competition and consumer watchdog in its current investigation of ecommerce giants.<\/p>\n New analysis of eBay, Amazon, Catch and Kogan\u2019s Australian privacy terms found they offer little variation in quality or competition, despite significant variance in form, including eBay\u2019s 22,000-word privacy terms dwarfing Kogan\u2019s 1,500-word policy.<\/p>\n