anna

I think a service that mixes government publicly available data with freely available private sector data is great (ie ABS/ census data and Google maps). There would be no privacy issues with that. Provided noone financially profits from it and it benefits society it can only be good to be freely/at cost available. As a side issue, I have a very little trust in the handling and privacy of personal information that public servants have access to ie tax files, immigration details etc. I'd be very wary of some types of info, even if aggregated 'de-identified', being used. Primarily because the less opportunity for persons to handle that sort of information the better.