A data-sharing scheme that allows government departments to share information about Australians has been explicitly designed to stop it being used to enforce laws.
Although a repeat of the robo-debt mess could not happen under the new scheme, it could still occur through some other means.
Rod Sims, the former ACCC chairman who last month was appointed to chair the National Data Advisory Council which advises the commissioner on how to implement the DATA scheme, said there was enormous economic value stored in government data, that was just waiting to be unlocked.
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