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Daily Dashboard | New amendments would criminalize ‘re-identified’ government data Related reading: A view from Brussels: EDPS sends signal on data transfers 

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Australia Attorney-General George Brandis plans to amend the Privacy Act to make it a criminal offense to publish or disseminate “re-identified” government datasets, the Guardian reports. “The amendment to the Privacy Act will create a new criminal offence of reidentifying de-identified government data,” said Brandis. “It will also be an offence to counsel, procure, facilitate, or encourage anyone to do this, and to publish or communicate any re-identified dataset.” Researchers and privacy advocates believe the new amendments will only impede progress for finding security issues. “Security through obscurity doesn’t work — keeping the algorithm secret wouldn’t have made the encryption secure, it just would have taken longer for security researchers to identify the problem. It is much better for such problems to be found and addressed than to remain unnoticed,” wrote University of Melbourne researchers in an article.
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