Tag: Data Availability and Transparency Act

Tech workers push for access to govt data sharing scheme

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Tech sector professionals are pushing for private sector access to the government’s fledgling data sharing scheme, telling a review their admission under tighter controls could start delivering the promised...

Give private sector access to govt data: Productivity Commission

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government is preventing “high-value data uses” by not granting the private sector access to public sector data holdings, according to the Productivity Commission’s first economy-wide report in...

Rod Sims to chair National Data Advisory Council

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Former competition watchdog Rod Sims will chair the council tasked with advising the National Data Commissioner on issues relating to the federal government’s new data sharing scheme. Mr Sims,...

Australian governments to share data by default

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Commonwealth and all state and territory governments have agreed to share data across jurisdictions as a “default position” when it can be done safely, paving the way for...

Govt acts on just 3 of 13 data-sharing recommendations

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government only addressed three out of 13 recommendations from a Privacy Impact Assessment of its sweeping new data-sharing scheme in the final legislation presented to Parliament. The...

Data Commissioner defends new sharing scheme

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government has struck the right balance with its sweeping new data-sharing scheme which will “streamline” service delivery, the Data Commissioner has told a Senate committee hearing, which also...

Govt data sharing plan ‘violates expectations’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
New laws that “fundamentally change” the way the federal government handles the personal data of Australians will have “enormous consequences” for individual privacy, civil and digital rights groups have...