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AU: VicRoads staff share private data

Posted on January 31, 2010 by pogowasright.org

Peter Mickelburough reports:

The personal details of 3.4 million Victorians continue to be abused by VicRoads staff despite a State Government bid to stamp out licensing fraud.

Seven VicRoads workers have been sacked or resigned for improperly accessing or releasing information from the authority’s database in the past two years.

Two other staff have been counselled and a 10th had a pay cut.

But the state’s vehicle licensing authority refuses to detail the exact nature of the abuse or the number of breaches committed by the staff.

Read more in the Herald Sun.

Category: BreachesNon-U.S.

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