Farms create lots of data, but farmers don't control where it ends up and who can use it
- Written by Leanne Wiseman, Associate Professor, Griffith Law School, Assoc Director Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA), Griffith University
All sorts of data is collected on Australian farms, such as stock numbers and crop details. from www.shutterstock.com
Most of us are familiar with cases of data being used in ways that go beyond consumer expectations – just think of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal.
However this is also an issue relevant to Australia’s...
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