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> the person provides an electronic service that has one or more end-users in Australia

I don’t think this particular clause covers an individual working for a corporation as an employee, as in that case the employee isn’t providing the service the employer is.

It reads to me like that clause is intended to cover people who produce software as sole operators of their business, or perhaps a group of people in a business partnership.

I haven’t read the rest of the act, so maybe there is a stronger clause targeting employees?

If the government can compel a company to do a thing that doesn’t necessarily mean they can compel any particular individual.

You could refuse / quit / abandon the project. Maybe they’ll just find somebody else to do it?




Then the government threaten to sue, many will compel. If the government say they will get 5 year jail for telling anybody, how can they get help?

Remember AU have no bill of rights.




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