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Push for consumers to control their own data
Data held by corporations on consumers would become the property of those consumers for the first time.
Peter Martin is the Economics Editor for The Age.
Data held by corporations on consumers would become the property of those consumers for the first time.
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has the report he commissioned to determine "which heads will roll and when" as a result of the collapse of the census website on census night.
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