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The Australian government may well have to reconsider its plan to release data about its citizens for use by businesses or scientists, with a top expert in security and privacy engineering telling iTWire that de-identification of datasets so that they cannot be traced back to the original is very hard, to the point of being practically impossible.

The Australian public service's workplace authority has removed from public view the data of more than 96,000 public servants it collected in its annual employee census.