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Soft terms like 'open' and 'sharing' don't tell the true story of your data

  • Written by Katharine Kemp, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UNSW, and Co-Leader, 'Data as a Source of Market Power' Research Stream of The Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation, UNSW
Soft terms like 'open' and 'sharing' don't tell the true story of your dataAdvances in machine learning may allow data that is de-identified now to be re-dentified in the future. from www.shutterstock.com

The Turnbull government today announced the creation of a new National Data Commissioner to oversee the implementation of greater data access and “sharing” in Australia.

This follows the government’s...