Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 (Australia) 474.17D: Criminal Code s 474.17D: doxxing members of a group because of a protected attribute

What does 474.17D require?

A person commits an offence (imprisonment for 7 years) if they use a carriage service to make available, publish or distribute personal data of one or more members of a group, in whole or part because of a belief that the group is distinguished by race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status, disability, nationality or national or ethnic origin, in a way reasonable persons would regard as menacing or harassing towards those members; whether the group is actually so distinguished is immaterial. Personal data has the same nine listed elements as s 474.17C.