The Data Availability and Transparency Act 2022 commenced on 1 April 2022.

The Office of the National Data Commissioner commissioned an independent Privacy Impact Assessment on the Data Availability and Transparency Bill as introduced to Parliament on 9 December 2020.

This webinar features an overview and discussion of the exposure draft of the Data Availability and Transparency Bill.

You will hear from Interim National Data Commissioner, Deborah Anton and former Assistant Secretary, Phillip Gould.

Individuals and their organisations (data users) must be accredited by the National Data Commissioner before they can access public sector data under the legislation.

Accreditation will provide:

The legislative package, which included an exposure draft of the Bill, explanatory materials and a Discussion Paper on the draft Accreditation Framework, was open for submissions from 14 September 2020 to 6 November 2020.