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...."

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http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=36033e0a-dc53-4d56-9f23-bab9b361446b

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Tags:

oa.new oa.psi oa.privacy oa.legislation oa.australia oa.data

Date tagged:

11/08/2016, 12:30

Date published:

11/08/2016, 07:30