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A worrying shift to a post-privacy society or plain good sense?

The Federal Government’s planned Data Availability and Transparency Bill, which would override the reams of existing laws and regulations around federal agencies sharing data, aims to maximise the value of citizen data across the public sector – and ‘accredited’ organisations including businesses.

Despite planned safeguards, it’s sure to raise plenty of concerns.

Sharing data is a logical move. It aids our interactions across agencies, cuts down on duplication (and cost) and pinpoints fraudsters cheating the system. But public wariness when it comes to data privacy is running high and governments, including in Australia, don’t necessarily have a stellar track record when it comes to handling sensitive personal data.

Mike no-middle-name Smith, beware!

In other news this week:

Snowflake’s record-breaking IPO
ERP provider ups its A/NZ ante
Fonterra’s transformation path
The bizarre politics of the TikTok/Oracle/Walmart deal

Enjoy the read,

Heather Wright
Editor
editor@istart.com.au

DATA SHARING

Making public-sector data available and transparent

Sharing is good, says the Govt…

Robust public-sector data sharing capabilities are a necessity in 2020.

“It’s true this bill would ostensibly provide transparency, but it won’t provide genuine accountability.”

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STOCKS

Snowflake’s staggering IPO

Unicorn mobilises the world’s data (and capital investment)…

Cloud-based data storage and analytics service company Snowflake has made history with the biggest software IPO ever.

“Our public profile will evolve rapidly and dramatically as a function of our public market debut.”

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CHANNEL

Syspro’s BrainStorm deal for growth

New channel partner lines up for ERP provider…

Manufacturing and distribution focused ERP provider Syspro has ramped up its local coverage, signing BrainStorm IT to its lineup of channel partners as it looks for ‘ambitious’ growth.

It’s important that Syspro is investing heavily in tech including ML and AI to enable anomaly detection.

[Read more]

TRANSFORMATION

HCL curds forming in Fonterra whey

ERP mess just one challenge in tech reset…

The cheese and crackers are still some way off in HCL’s challenging transformation of Fonterra’s IT services.

“There’s a long pipeline of productivity improvements and things we can do.”

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TIKTOCK TACK

TikTok: Four companies and a president

The messy, political, world of the TikTok deal – will it scare users away?…

It’s the young, hip social media platform, and now TikTok apparently has new owners – the, well, less young and hip, Oracle and Walmart.

“There is still work to do on final agreements.”

[Read more]

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