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Policy proposal that could expand identification and preservation duties
Recommendation 48 of the Australian Online Safety Act review proposes stronger account-identification and information-preservation arrangements. Its mechanisms include collecting phone numbers at account opening, preventing certain notice-related tip-offs and compelling preservation. The government's April 2026 response supports the recommendation in principle.
The updated review's February 2025 text distinguishes identifying particular users from collecting information when accounts open and acknowledges privacy and security constraints. The 14 April 2026 response supports intent and merit subject to further proportionality and rights consideration. The inspected September 2026 Digital Duty of Care exposure-draft amendments did not expressly implement phone-at-signup, preservation notices or a general user-tip-off prohibition. That bounded comparison does not audit all other laws or future instruments; it preserves the difference between proposed machinery and an operative duty.
Published updated statutory review —February2025 → Review48: account identification and preservation
Published updated section11.2/printed153-154 distinguishes identifying particular users from collecting information on account opening. Privacy/security constraints acknowledged; specific underlying drafter not established.
Government review response —April2026 → Review48: account identification and preservation
2026-04-14 – 2026-04-14
Printed11-13 supports intent/merit with further proportionality and rights consideration. Does not establish acceptance of every mechanism, enacted duty or deployment.
Australia digital duty of care — exposure draft → Review48: account identification and preservation
Full working reader keyword checks plus Schedule2 items52-57/Part13 review: end-user division regrouped and198-205 replaced. No express phone-at-signup, preservation-notice or general user-tipoff prohibition found there. Other laws/future instruments/parallel age-enforcement bill not exhaustively audited.
Australian duty-of-care policy disposition ↗
Australia Digital Duty of Care: operative authority and adult choice ↗
Published updated statutory review —February2025 → proposes phone-at-opening, confidentiality and preservation → Review48: account identification and preservation
Published updated section11.2/printed153-154 distinguishes identifying particular users from collecting information on account opening. Privacy/security constraints acknowledged; specific underlying drafter not established.
Government review response —April2026 → supports recommendation48 in principle → Review48: account identification and preservation
2026-04-14 – 2026-04-14
Printed11-13 supports intent/merit with further proportionality and rights consideration. Does not establish acceptance of every mechanism, enacted duty or deployment.
Australia digital duty of care — exposure draft → inspected amendments do not expressly implement phone proposal → Review48: account identification and preservation
Interpretation from the evidence
Full working reader keyword checks plus Schedule2 items52-57/Part13 review: end-user division regrouped and198-205 replaced. No express phone-at-signup, preservation-notice or general user-tipoff prohibition found there. Other laws/future instruments/parallel age-enforcement bill not exhaustively audited.