Calls for new ‘national interest’ test for datasets


New ministerial powers preventing certain datasets from being stored outside of Australia should be handed to the federal government, according to a local cloud services provider and data centre operator.

Macquarie Technology Group has also urged the federal government to develop a data classification scheme for government data that can also be used by the states and territories, as well as critical infrastructure providers.

In its submission to the Australian …

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