NSW Budget tight for Information and Privacy, looser for digital and data
No big news in the NSW budget for the Information and Privacy Commission with the allocation of funds for 2016-17, $5.46 million, close to the allocation last year. (See 7-35 in the Justice Cluster Budget Estimates .) Nothing in there in the narrative or the numbers that might suggest a move after all these years from a part time to full time Privacy C ommissioner. The IPC Service Measures in the budget paper include estimates of the number of reviews and complaints the office will deal with and how many hits are expected on the website but nothing that goes to measures o f outcomes and results from all that activity during the year. Not alone there-its an area where the NSW public sector generally hasn't moved far in a long time. Over at the Finance Services and Innovation Cluster a lot of money for ITC and digital services, with Minister Dominell o highlighting data initiatives: The NSW Data Analytics Centre (DAC) has received $17 million over four years to continue it...