[LINK] ABS Tries to Blame IBM for 2016 Census Problems

[Roger Clarke]

G'day Tom

At 8:57 +1000 27/9/16, Tom Worthington wrote:
>The 2016 Census will become a useful case study for teaching professional responsibility to IT students: http://www.tomw.net.au/basic_ict_professional_ethics/

I agree, but do you have in mind just the security and management aspects?

Or the (far more important) privacy and public trust factors as well?
http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/Census-2016.html
http://www.privacy.org.au/Campaigns/Census2016/

APF's submission to the Senate Ctee will be up this evening at:
http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/Sen-Census-160927.pdf

Regards  ...  Roger

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At 8:57 +1000 27/9/16, Tom Worthington wrote:
>In its 123 page submission to the 2016 Census Senate Inquiry, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) seeks to blame IBM for the failure of the system on Census night: http://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=124f22ba-caaa-46ff-899d-7d96851fee3e&subId=414127
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>Similarly, in the case of "Maguire v Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2000)", SOCOG sought to deflect responsibility for defects in its web site to the contractor, IBM. However, this was rejected and SOCOG, not the contractor, was found responsible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguire_v_Sydney_Organising_Committee_for_the_Olympic_Games_(2000)
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>SOCOG was a temporary organization set up just to run the Sydney Olympics, with limited experience. In contrast, the ABS has decades of experience in statistical collection using IT systems and cannot credibly transfer responsibility to IBM.
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>The 2016 Census will become a useful case study for teaching professional responsibility to IT students: http://www.tomw.net.au/basic_ict_professional_ethics/
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