National guidance to help public servants make ethical decisions when collecting, using and sharing public data will be developed by the federal government in a bid to tackle the trust deficit created by Robodebt.
But the proposed framework, which would put Australia on par with the governments of United Kingdom and United States, will also lay down a path for the responsible sharing of public datasets in “new and innovative ways”.
Details of the Data Ethics Framework for the Australian Public Service (APS) are contained in the government’s new seven-year Data and Digital Government Strategy to be released on Friday morning.
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