Provide all citizens with a report on how their individual level data has been used by government services. No citizen currently knows how Government has used their data. Digital Services should provide the citizen with a report on how their individual level data has been used by those services. All uses and flows of a citizen’s individual level data within and out of a department/body should be securely and sensitively collated, and made available to a citizen in a secure and confidential digital manner. Every citizen should be able to see an individual “data bank statement” of how/where Government has used their record and why. If you don’t know where your data has gone, there’s no way to know whether your wishes are being respected. And when there is a problem, there’s no way to know whether you were personally affected. To assuage concerns, citizens must be able to understand precisely where their data has gone, and why, through citizen centric data usage reports.
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