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 value.
The private sector was deliberately locked out of the Data Availability and Transparency (DATA) scheme when it was legislated in 2022 along with other last minute privacy protections.
At the time, the Morrison government was under pressure to set up the scheme and realise billions in economic value the Productivity Commission said would flow from sharing data held by government agencies.
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