[LINK] Fwd: Successful creation of Unique Student Identifier (USI) [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Brenda Aynsley]

On 23/02/15 11:58, Jim Birch wrote:
> Brenda Aynsley wrote:
>
> If every student will have one of these, does this become the defacto
>> Australia Card over the next generation?
>>
>
> How dare you?  Government and private organisations are subject to a
> variety of privacy laws and regulations which mean that you get a set of
> different and completely separate numbers from different organisations
> which you must manage individually and none of them comprise a global
> unique ID until passed through a matching algorithm.
>
> :|

of course Jim, how remiss of me to suggest that as ICT professionals we 
would have anything to do with providing those matching algorithms on 
the grounds of protecting privacy as the law dictates.

sigh no make that big sigh

brenda


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