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AU: Southern Phone Company breaches customer privacy, ACMA finds

Posted on June 26, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Hamish Barwick reports:

Southern Phone Company (SPC) failed to protect the privacy of 3854 silent line customers when uploading customer data to the Integrated Public Number Database (IPND), the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has ruled.

Phone numbers, names and address details were published in three online directories between 18 March and 24 July last year.

Read more on Computerworld.

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