De-identification/re-identification - what’s all the fuss about? - Lexology
peter.suber's bookmarks 2016-11-08
Summary:
"Recently, Attorney-General George Brandis announced that he intends to introduce to Parliament amendments to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) that would make it a criminal offence to re-identify Commonwealth Government data that has been stripped of identifying markers. Under the proposed amendments, it would also be an offence to counsel, procure, facilitate, or encourage anyone to re-identify Commonwealth Government data, and to publish or communicate any re-identified dataset. It is understood that researchers will be exempt from prosecution under the proposed new regime...."