Landmark privacy determination puts rent tech platforms on notice. But renters remain vulnerable

By Lina Przhedetsky, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne and ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, The University of Melbourne

One of Australia’s most-used tenancy application platforms has breached privacy laws, Privacy Commissioner Carly Kind has ruled.

2Apply, owned by InspectRealEstate, is a third-party platform that has processed more than 8.5 million tenancy applications.

The commissioner launched an investigation into 2Apply in March last year. In a landmark determination published this week, she found that…

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