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AU: Telstra unit in hot water over crime victim’s listing

Posted on May 5, 2015June 26, 2025 by Dissent

Mitchell Bingemann reports:

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and the Telecommunications Ombudsman are conducting urgent investigations into the privacy practises of a Telstra subsidiary after it failed on multiple occasions to keep a Victim of Crime customer’s details from being exposed.

The telco is being scrutinised by the two agencies after internal processes at Telstra’s budget broadband brand Belong breached a customer’s privacy on two separate occasions over a nine-month period by listing telephone and address details through its online directory WhitePages.

Read more on The Australian.

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