re-identification

The Queensland OIC report tabled on Tuesday looked at how two unnamed government agencies have managed privacy risks when releasing de-identified data.

Privacy commissioners of four states and the Commonwealth are celebrating their week on the awareness-raising calendar, at the pointy end of an election campaign that

The Department of Health breached the Privacy Act by publishing open data, according to a ruling made last week by former information and privacy commissioner Timothy

Happy New Year! There’s a lot of people still on well earned holidays across the public sector and The Mandarin’s offices are still deathly quiet as well, but the Canberra desk is now back online.

A new data de-identification decision-making guide has been released to help public servants and others navigate this area. But there is still more work to be done on engagement, says Peter Leonard, a leading expert on the legal side of data use and privacy.

The federal government is clearly sold on big data and is combining massive stores of sensitive public information. It needs to bring the public along but while privacy concerns abound, there’s little sign that many Australians share the enthusiasm.

Government agencies need to build social license before pushing ahead with open data. Two key information mandarins have concerns with reforms proposed by the Productivity Commission, ahead of a final report in March.