In the past decade, the Australian government has commissioned data analytics projects worth more than A$200 million. We have little information about what they involved.
Controversy has recently surrounded Centrelink and its handling of ‘overpayments’ and personal information.
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Morgan Currie, University of California, Los Angeles and Britt S. Paris, University of California, Los Angeles
Activists today are racing to save climate records from the Trump administration. Secret archives were a powerful way to fight hostile political climates throughout history – from the Nazis to the Islamic State.
A blockchain could be used to record all of our interactions with the government.
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The problems with Centrelink's data-matching system stem from reconciling datasets held by different agencies. What if we used a blockchain to create a single source of data?