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Benefits of the census retaining names and addresses should outweigh privacy fears

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageThe ABS has announced that it will retain the names and addresses collected in the 2016 Census.AAP/Dean Lewins

Former Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) head Bill McLennan renewed the debate over privacy, data linkage and the census when he recently spoke of the major risks involved in retaining names and addresses from the 2016 Census.

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The leakers of Panama

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageEPA/Alejandro Bolivar

Last week’s shenanigans from Donald Trump reminded us of a particularly florid episode of House of Cards. This week, with the leak of 11.5 million documents suggesting elite tax avoidance and evasion on an heroic scale, we’re in John Le Carre territory – if not the Night Manager (currently playing out on BBC...

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Online retailers yet to harness big social data

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Around the world, social media is giving consumers far greater visibility into supply chain processes and problems. For better or worse, manufacturing locations and labour conditions, warehouses, warehouse systems, packing processes, logistics partners and their delivery drivers have...

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