This Is Probably Some Legislation We Should Keep A Close Eye On As It Progresses ….

 This appeared last week! Senate committee red-flags govt data sharing bill By Justin Hendry on Feb 5, 2021 6:55AM Over privacy concerns. The federal government ’s proposed data sharing laws have stumbled at the first hurdle despite two years of development, with a senate committee raising a series of privacy concerns with the Data Availability and Transparency Bill. The bill, which was introduced to parliament in December, aims to make it easier for the public sector to share data within government and across the private sector for the purposes of delivering government services and support research and development. It intends to unlock data with a scheme that gives agencies an optional pathway to share data with accredited entities, overriding some 500 data secrecy and confidentiality provisions in 175 pieces of existing legislation. Personal information and sensitive data collected by agencies, except sensitive data handled under other legislation (think My Health Record,... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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