A CNET op-ed from Claire Reilly criticizes the controversial move by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to include and retain every citizen’s name and address in the country’s upcoming census. "When you say, 'I trust the security systems that the ABS has put in,' you're also saying, 'I trust all the people that work at the ABS and have access to that,’” said Digital Rights Watch’s Chris Berg. While the agency touts a strong cybersecurity record, “an organization is only as good as its people,” Reilly says. “It takes just one error to put masses of potentially personally-identifiable information on every Australian at risk.”
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