Like plumbing did for water, Australia's 'consumer data right' could make your personal data safer and easier to share
- Written by: Ross Buckley, ARC Laureate Fellow, Scientia Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney
ShutterstockBack in 2017, The Economist published a headline that became a meme. It said data had become the new oil.
By that it meant that the world’s biggest and most profitable companies no longer worked with oil, as they had throughout the 20th century, but with data.
By 2022, three of the world’s five most profitable companies...
