Google has implemented its Fusion Tables as a document type, which enable dynamic and visual uses of data.
All uses of data would have to be registered, and there would be penalties for violators.
WHAT do you get when you bring together some bright minds thinking about the uses of data in society?
"There's no bad data, only bad uses of data," says Craig Mundie, a senior adviser at Microsoft, who worked on the position paper.
Johnston said the ABS and federal government might have benign uses of data but "we can't protect against future governments [and instances] where people might want to misuse the data".
Some worried that the rush to hook city infrastructure up to the internet – the so-called internet of things – and find clever uses of data could ignore the needs of citizens.
Ahead of the Six Nations, and in the year that England hosts the Rugby World Cup 2015, the Guardian hosted a seminar, sponsored by Accenture, about the uses of data in elite sports and business.
"You can't see it with the naked eye, but a computer can," she says.Open sesameTwo technology trends are helping to fuel these new uses of data: cloud computing and open-source software.
Broad-based literacy in the uses of data should probably happen too, along with new kinds of management, better tools for reading the information, and privacy safeguards for corporate and personal information.
Rick Smolan, creator of the "Day in the Life" photography series, is planning a project later this year, "The Human Face of Big Data," documenting the collection and uses of data.
Ask a lawyer and a database administrator for their definitions of "delete" or "anonymise" and you will quickly realise the size of the task facing legislators around the world as they seek to define and prevent irresponsible and outright criminal uses of data in 2013.
