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Child protection worker’s name revealed to sex offender in fresh privacy breach

Posted on July 27, 2016 by pogowasright.org

Beau Donelly reports:

A child protection worker is fighting the state government for compensation after an official revealed her confidential identity to a jailed sex offender whose case she worked on.

The former worker alleges the Department of Justice failed to take reasonable steps to protect her personal information when a guard at the Hopkins Correctional Centre gave a prisoner’s wife her name and phone number.

Read more on The Age.

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