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Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim, together with noted security and privacy professionals, have called for amendments to a Federal Government Bill that would criminalise the identification of Government-issued anonymous data sets claiming it will impinge legitimate research. Federal Attorney-General George …

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  1. Paul

    and in other news: farm yard workers, who report that the horse already ran away whilst the owners are busy locking the stable, are to be prosecuted.

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  2. Michael Thibault

    Legislators conflating the map and the territory.

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  3. eldakka

    Alternatively, you could ship the raw data offshore and have someone outside the jurisdiction of the Australian government perform the de-anonymisation.

    Sorta like PGP shipped development to NZ to avoid the then US crypto export controls.

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  4. jake Silver badge

    You mean security by obscurity doesn't work?

    I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

    They[0] say lawyers will be first up against the wall. Me, I'm thinking politicians ...

    [0] Whoever "they" is ...

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  5. jake Silver badge

    Actually, Paul ...

    ... the "farm yard workers"[0] are almost always in charge of securing the livestock. I have a couple horses here at the barn which are never even visited by their owners ...

    [0] We call 'em "field hands" in these here parts.

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