Catch 22

Quote from the former ISP co-owner that appointed Wyatt Earp as the Minister of Innovation, mate;

“I want to assure Australians that the unequivocal advice we have received from IBM, from the ABS, from the Australian Signal Directorate, is that their Australian census data is safe, it has not been compromised,”

Well I feel very comforted that IBM, the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and the other lot are looking after our data. Top team, and all that.

As I’ve said before there’s absolutely no way in the world to keep your data private in the modern era.

The only thing to do is to create so much false data that none of it can be used against you in a legal context.

To wit, I’ve lost an opportunity to complete the consensus form with complete trash, as a future insurance policy.

But then, as Joseph Heller predicted, said data would be assumed to be true, no matter how absurd.

Damned if you do.