Same here

My bad. I missed that gem amongst the rabble.

A bit like rehab huh? Slippery slope.........

what do you mean by identifiable?

Daylight savings hasn't started yet. Give it a couple of months. Now where's Doctor Watson at this early hour?

Information that if released would give the ability to identify an individual. The data is aggregated.

true, but the source data prior to aggregation has a ludicrous amount of identifiable information though.
If that should leak....

Very nice chatty lady just delivered mine.

Massive if considering the way it is secured. The ABS risks its own existence if that data source is accessible to anyone but a select few. Even then all access is logged. The source data is considered sacrosanct to avoid the perception of a lack of integrity. The legislation backing the ABS also requires the security and aggregation.

true.
Although not in the same league I imagine Sony considered the PSN data and payment information to be sacrosanct too

I'm just puzzled for the reqirement for so much information, though I'm not quite at the stage of dusting off my tin foil hat and screeching about big brother in a census just yet

Sony PSN data. British passport office. Police databases. Immigration databases. amazon cloud. Laptops left on busses. Does any of this ring bells with any of you?

I am truly amazed at how everyone seems to queue up like lemmings and volunteer all this info. Why do they need your name if it's not used for anything?

But that Sony information was left stored on computers directly accessible from the net. No identifiable ABS information hits a PC to be lost. Fed gov laptops normally have HDD encryption. Sony was slack and cheap and has had little criminal legal trouble. Private sector and state data had nowhere near the same level of legislation to cover privacy.

I cannot comment much more other than that your information has multiple barriers to access, both physical and technical.

The information asked for is another matter.

Can't give you any karma.. but it would have been pity karma if I could

I hope you don't think that big brother doesn't have all this info on you already in one form or another.

Exactly...we had laptops stolen from government offices back in Canada. I received a letter: sorry, your private information may have been compromised, nothing we can do about it, just thought we'd let you know. If you have an issue, complain to Alberta Health Care.

Er, thanks.

I don't see the need for the level of personal info they are asking for on this census. And does no one find it irritating that you apparently don't have the choice to refuse to answer questions, don't have the right to give false information...like this is the Spanish Inquisition?

Feel free post the Python sketch...