Government agencies have not launched a fully-fledged review of decades-old data matching laws, despite clear recommendations from the auditor-general to do so last year and warnings in the Robodebt royal commission.
Agencies have increasingly relied on data matching to verify information for compliance and service delivery, governed by a framework of protocols and governance mechanisms, including regulator guidelines, privacy law and a dedicated data matching act.
These safeguards try to …
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