G'day Tom At 8:57 +1000 27/9/16, Tom Worthington wrote: >The 2016 Census will become a useful case study for teaching professional >responsibility to IT students: >http://www.tomw.net.au/basic_ict_professional_ethics/
I agree, but do you have in mind just the security and management aspects? Or the (far more important) privacy and public trust factors as well? http://www.rogerclarke.com/DV/Census-2016.html http://www.privacy.org.au/Campaigns/Census2016/ APF's submission to the Senate Ctee will be up this evening at: http://www.privacy.org.au/Papers/Sen-Census-160927.pdf Regards ... Roger ___________________ At 8:57 +1000 27/9/16, Tom Worthington wrote: >In its 123 page submission to the 2016 Census Senate Inquiry, the Australian >Bureau of Statistics (ABS) seeks to blame IBM for the failure of the system on >Census night: >http://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=124f22ba-caaa-46ff-899d-7d96851fee3e&subId=414127 > >Similarly, in the case of "Maguire v Sydney Organising Committee for the >Olympic Games (2000)", SOCOG sought to deflect responsibility for defects in >its web site to the contractor, IBM. However, this was rejected and SOCOG, not >the contractor, was found responsible: >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguire_v_Sydney_Organising_Committee_for_the_Olympic_Games_(2000) > >SOCOG was a temporary organization set up just to run the Sydney Olympics, >with limited experience. In contrast, the ABS has decades of experience in >statistical collection using IT systems and cannot credibly transfer >responsibility to IBM. > >The 2016 Census will become a useful case study for teaching professional >responsibility to IT students: >http://www.tomw.net.au/basic_ict_professional_ethics/ > > >-- >Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 >The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ >PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au >Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation > >Adjunct Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, College of Engineering >& Computer Science, Australian National University >http://people.cecs.anu.edu.au/user/3890 http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4799-8464 >_______________________________________________ >Link mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link -- Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/ Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Tel: +61 2 6288 6916 http://about.me/roger.clarke mailto:[email protected] http://www.xamax.com.au/ Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
