'No hope of protecting it': inside the data oversight crisis facing the public service

One in three public-sector data professionals do not trust the data held within their own departments, a recent survey showed.

The survey of 133 public-sector data professionals showed 87 per cent of respondents lacked specialised tools for tracking data assets, and more than half said their departments did not document the reasons for collecting data.

Aristotle Metadata owner Sam Spencer warns of critical security and transparency gaps in federal data governance. Picture by Keegan Carroll