Peter A Clarke

The Privacy Commissioner has released a business resource on the de-identification of data and information. It is found here. De identification and anonymisation of data is the subject of some conjecture in the privacy community and with academic writers.  With the rise of big data and the harnessing of sophisticated algorithims some commentators believe it is virtually impossible to de-identify information.  That is not a position privacy regulators take though they acknowledge the danger of matching data across a range of sources which could identify data otherwise thought de identified.  It is an open issue.  For the regulator however an orthodox resource to provide some assistance has been produced.

It provides, without footnotes (though the sources are a necessary read to properly understand this issue):

Privacy business resource 4: De-identification of data and information

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The House Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs conducted a roundtable on the use of drones and privacy on 28 February 2014.  The terms of reference are:

Inquiry into a matter arising from the 2012-13 Annual Report of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, namely the regulation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

The press release relevantly provides:

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