Australian agency withdraws data after fears it wasn’t securely anonymized, posing a privacy risk. Data comprises a census of Australian federal employees that was conducted over May and June. The data is aggregated and supposed to be scrubbed to ensure no responses can be traced back to an individual, according to a fact sheet. The APSC says it expects the data to be re-released in the next week. Anonymizing large data sets is a complex problem; once insecure data has been released, it’s impossible to pull back.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/australian-agency-withdraws-data-after-privacy-worries-a-9439