Productivity Commission Part Two: A new framework for data sharing and release
In our earlier article, The Productivity Commission’s proposed comprehensive consumer right to data, we looked at the new consumer right to data proposed in the Productivity Commission (the Commission) recent report on data availability and release. Today, we look at the second plank of the reform proposed by the Commission: The proposed scalable risk framework for data sharing and release. By Dr. Drew Donnelly, Compliance Quarter. Identified deficiencies in the current regulatory framework Currently, data release is governed by privacy legislation (both at the federal and state levels), as well as a more than 500 secrecy provisions contained in vast array of subject-matter specific legislation. An example of such a secrecy provision is in section 135A of the National Health Act 1953 which prohibits the sharing of any information…