Privacy Foundation Trusting government with open data a 'recipe for pain'
0Privacy Foundation Trusting government with open data a 'recipe for pain'.
The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF) has called out the federal government and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) after failing to publish a report on the September 2016 incident that revealed Medicare Benefits Schedule and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data was not encrypted properly.
The dataset was found by a team of researchers from the University of Melbourne and was subsequently pulled down by the Department of Health.
At the time, the OAIC announced it was investigating the publication of the datasets, however more than 12 months later, it is still investigating.
Of concern to the APF is that there has been no public report, nor warning about the bug in open data; no indication of when the report will be released; and no requirement to reconsider the misplaced trust in the de-identification of open data.
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