Nathaniel Erskine-Smith at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On May 30th, 2017. See this statement in context.

May 30th, 2017 / 5:05 p.m.

Liberal

The Vice-Chair Liberal Nathaniel Erskine-Smith

Thank you very much.

Australia has a law proposal—I don't think it's enacted yet—that would make it an offence to de-identify government datasets. You mentioned that de-identification and anonymization are important. Do you think we should not only be looking at rules that would expressly authorize de-identification but also looking at whether to make it an offence or otherwise prohibit re-identification?

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