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Governments ‘lack ethics controls for data’

Tom Burton
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Australian governments lack robust ethics controls for data and should emulate university research procedures when exploring data and using powerful applications such as artificial intelligence, a government conference has heard.

New data-sharing laws have fuelled a spate of data integration projects, such as mixing vaccine and demographic data to assess rollout effectiveness.

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Tom Burton has held senior editorial and publishing roles with The Mandarin, The Sydney Morning Herald and as Canberra bureau chief for The Australian Financial Review. He has won three Walkley awards. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at tom.burton@afr.com

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