"The federal government’s Multi-Agency Data Integration Project has gone through an independent privacy impact assessment, and the six big agencies involved have agreed to 14 recommendations for improvement.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has been combining data from the Tax Office, Human Services, Social Services, Education and Health for several years already, as consulting firm Galexia notes in the new PIA, under the banner of testing the system:
“Since 2015 MADIP has been operating as an evaluation – testing the technical capability of the Partner Agencies to share data in a way that delivers useful outputs, whilst preserving privacy. The evaluation phase is expected to draw to a close in 2018.”
This work is the “core component” of the more recently announced Data Integration Partnership for Australia and the data will be shared with approved researchers via “highly secure ABS systems” according to the project website."
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