The Data Availability and Transparency Act 2022 (Cth) (DAT Act) is an Act of the Australian Parliament that authorises and regulates access to data held by the Australian Government.[1]
| Data Availability and Transparency 2022 | |
|---|---|
| Parliament of Australia | |
| |
| Citation | No 11 of 2022 [1] |
| Territorial extent | Australia |
| Passed by | Australian House of Representatives |
| Passed | 30 March 2022 |
| Passed by | Senate |
| Passed | 30 March 2022 |
| Assented to | 31 March 2022 |
| Commenced | 1 April 2022 |
| Date of expiry | 1 April 2027 |
| Legislative history | |
| First chamber: Australian House of Representatives | |
| Bill title | Data Availability and Transparency Act 2020 |
| Introduced by | Stuart Robert |
| First reading | 9 December 2020 |
| Second reading | 30 March 2022 |
| Third reading | 30 March 2022 |
| Second chamber: Senate | |
| Bill title | Data Availability and Transparency Act 2022 |
| First reading | 30 March 2022 |
| Second reading | 30 March 2022 |
| Third reading | 30 March 2022 |
| Final stages | |
| Finally passed both chambers | 30 March 2022 |
| Keywords | |
| data sharing | |
| Status: In force | |
The Australian Parliament passed the Act into law in March 2022.[2][3][4][5][6] The Act came into effect on 1 April 2022.[7]
The Act creates a public-sector data sharing scheme that permits Australian Government (Commonwealth) bodies to share their data with other Commonwealth bodies, Australian state or territory government bodies, or Australian universities;[8] these entities must be accredited, before they can obtain and use the data.[8][9]
The Act requires that any sharing of data under the scheme must:
- be for one or more of the permitted data sharing purposes;[8]
- be consistent with data sharing principles;[8] and
- within a data sharing agreement.[8]
The Act specifically precludes sharing of data under the scheme for law enforcement-related purposes or national security purposes.[8] If the shared data includes personal information, privacy protections also apply.[8][9]
The Act permits sharing of data under the scheme for three purposes only:[8]
- delivery of government services;
- informing government policy and programs; and
- research and development.
The Act establishes a National Data Commissioner to be the regulator of this data sharing scheme.[8]
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ Data Availability and Transparency Act 2022 (Cth)
- ^ Hendry, Justin (2022-03-31). "Public sector data sharing laws pass parliament with Labor changes". iTnews. Retrieved 2023-05-30.
- ^ Burton, Tom (2022-04-01). "End to multiple forms as 'tell us once' becomes possible". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
- ^ Hendry, Justin (2023-03-17). "Give private sector access to govt data: Productivity Commission". InnovationAus. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
- ^ Cho, George (2023). Information Technology Law in Australia. Kluwer Law International. ISBN 9789403522968.
- ^ Hendry, Justin (2022-07-28). "Data sharing regime "open for business" as accreditation begins". IT news. Retrieved 2023-06-16.
- ^ Keelara, R. and P. Haywood (2023), "Building the data and digital foundations of health systems", in Ready for the Next Crisis? Investing in Health System Resilience, OECD Publishing, Paris, doi:10.1787/9b8a7ce8-en. page 386
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Witzleb, Normann (2023-04-12), Hennemann, Moritz; Lewinski, Kai von; Wawra, Daniela; Widjaja, Thomas (eds.), "Responding to Global Trends? Privacy Law Reform in Australia", Data Disclosure, De Gruyter, pp. 147–168, doi:10.1515/9783111010601-009, ISBN 978-3-11-101060-1
- ^ a b Katie Logos, Russell Brewer, Colette Langos, Bryce Westlake, Establishing a framework for the ethical and legal use of web scrapers by cybercrime and cybersecurity researchers: learnings from a systematic review of Australian research, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Volume 31, Issue 3, Autumn 2023, Pages 186–212, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlit/eaad023