A week after the Australian government announced it would beef up the nation’s cyber security, the government services minister is proposing assigning special status for the data of Australians to better protect and manage it.
Minister Stuart Roberts told the National Press Club on July 7: “This will include considering whether certain data sets of concern to the public should be declared ‘sovereign data sets’ and should only be hosted in Australia, in an accredited Australian data centre, across Australian networks and only accessed by the Australian government and our Australian service providers.”
