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posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 09 2016, @04:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the if-in-doubt,-challenge-the-system dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/aug/08/census-privacy-fears-nick-xenophon-to-withhold-name-in-push-for-test-case

The independent senator Nick Xenophon says he will refuse to include his name on his census form on Tuesday, knowing he could be prosecuted for it, because he is not convinced the national census does not present a huge privacy risk.

He says he is willing to make himself a test case to challenge the government's ability to prosecute Australians for withholding their name from the census and he has not changed his mind despite speaking to the chief statistician of the Bureau of Statistics.

"I understand that, by refusing to provide my name, I will be given a notice under the act to comply and the $180-a-day fine starts from then," Xenophon said on Monday. "I will contest any such notice and, by doing so, I will in effect turn it into a test case for the ability of this request.

"In the meantime, I will be seeking amendments to section 14 of the act so that a person cannot be prosecuted if they fail to provide their name. In other words, it will ensure such information is unambiguously non-compulsory.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @04:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @04:44AM (#385630)

    How does not filling in your name stop them from knowing where to build hospitals and schools?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @03:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 09 2016, @03:45PM (#385803)

    Or building immigration services or english-as-a-second-language services or aditional driver training services?